The Blackout of '06..
The Owners that were here last Friday night when the power went out already know how quickly it gets warm in your home. For those who were not here, it got hot fast. Luckily, no one currently depends on the electricity being on for life sustaining equipment, but it would have been a life threatening problem in the past had our very expensive and much heralded "Roof Top Generator" not automatically begun operation when the power failed on the
That's just what happened...
No word yet from the current Board Members regarding the the loss of power last week, but I spoke with Dick Uthoff as he passed in and out of Patsy's office today with a thick file folder under his arm. Dick said "Stuart & Stevenson, the manufacturer of the equipment, failed to service the Generator properly". He said "that the Batteries that operate the switching system when the power goes out were not hooked up properly". (Of course this would have failed the maintenance test prior to them finishing the most recent service call...) Along with this problem, I understand Patsy did all she could do, but was unable to manually get the unit started. (Thanks for your efforts Patsy!)
It appears that each employee should be trained as to the operation of the unit and the location of an override switch that turns it on in case these batteries should ever fail again.
I'll pass along the official explanation from a current board member when it becomes available.
Randy Clay #108
