Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

[Seth Mattinen]

Leo Bicknell wrote:
> I was complaining to some of the power designers during the building
> of a major facility that the EPO button represented a single point
> of failure, and effectively made all of the redundancy built into
> the power system useless.  After all, what's the point of having
> two (or more) of anything, if there's one button somewhere that
> turns it all off?
If the EPO cuts power to the whole facility, it didn't fail, it worked 
perfectly. The failure is actually Slappy the EPO button-pusher.

~Seth