Subject: Today's power problem
From: Jim Thomas (jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 13:54:56 CDT
As many of you know, the building lost power this morning. I'm not in
the building at the moment, so I'm not sure of the status of things,
but as a head's up for those at work, here's where things were at when
I left about 11:30:
--The west/Throop upper level parking gate was working periodically, so
it might be stuck either open or shut.
--The security lock system appeared to be running on backup battery, but
I couldn't tell for sure. Maybe Chris or Loretta could check this out.
If it's on backup battery, the power supply lasts about four hours.
If all power goes out, then the system reverts back to the key system,
so use your keys if the fobs aren't working.
We have the access control system guidelines on the Vanguard homepage at:
http://www.1250westvanburen.com/private/docs/vg_acsOwnersGuide_08292006.pdf
Hopefully, CommEd will have things fixed by the time people start
returning home from work, but just in case.....
Jim
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Jim Thomas / Department of Sociology / Northern Illinois University
jthomas@sun.soci.niu.edu / http://www.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas
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