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At the last company I worked for, which was a manufacturing facility. They installed a giant flywheel as a line conditioning device. (We manufactured NAS, and i
by AaronM 16y ago
At the last company I worked for, which was a manufacturing facility. They installed a giant flywheel as a line conditioning device. (We manufactured NAS, and it is terribly costly when a power outage interrupts 5 days worth of testing forcing you to start over). I think it gave us about 17-18 seconds of power, in the event of any brief interruptions in power (Most of the outages we received were 1-2 seconds in length)
- aristus 16y agoSome datacenters (eg the Miami IPX/NAP) use flywheels the size of large trucks to provide failover until the generators kick in. They are seriously scary machines up close.