[Info-vax] SBB power supplies failing slowly

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <t1s8ml$baf$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2022-03-28, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> > I've seen this before, about a year ago, then it happened again in 
> > another BA356: Disks go offline and into mount verification, then come 
> > back after a minute or so.  The process repeats every ten minutes.  Of 
> > course, being VMS, the cluster continues and practically nothing else is 
> > affected, but it is annoying.
> 
> Careful Phillip. How do you know that you are not getting silent data
> corruption if your power supplies are in this state ?

I replace them when I notice it.  My guess is that HBVS knows what to do 
here.

> > I need the Top Gun Blue (that's really the official colour!) 180W 
> > versions.  If anyone has any in Scandinavia, Germany, Benelux, England, 
> > Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, or northwestern Croatia I could probably 
> > collect them sometime this year, probably before autumn.  Rest of the 
> > Balkan: next year.
> 
> Any part of Europe you have _not_ driven through ? :-)

Ireland, Luxembourg, the Baltic states, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria,
Romania, Greece, Monaco, Vatican City, San Marino, Andorra,
Liechtenstein, Cyprus, Malta, Iceland, Bosnia and Herzogovina, Kosovo. 
So I've been to 22 of 42.  (Defining "Europe" here to include former
Soviet-bloc countries but not any from the USSR (except the Baltic
states) nor Turkey.)  Of the 20 I haven't visited, 6 are (almost)
microstates, 4 are islands (one is both).  Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria,
Romania, the Baltic states, and Greece are all at the Eastern border, 
too far from the beaten path.  I've had no reason to go to Kosovo or 
Bosnia and Herzogovina, though I've been to the other Balkan countries.  
Luxemburg is only a couple of hours from here, so that is an anomaly.  
:-)

> > I also plan to be in the southeast USA soon so would be happy to collect 
> > there as well.  (Apparently they run on 50 or 60 Hz and anything between 
> > 100 and 240 volts.)
> 
> That could make for an interesting discussion when you try leaving
> the US again. :-)

I don't think that old DEC hardware is considered to be weapons export 
anymore.