"A sports programme on Dutch public television ended up being broadcast by candlelight on Sunday after a power cut at the TV station."
Odd they lost the lights, but not the transmission and recordng kit.
Dust of your crystal sets, and fire up them donkey powered AM valve transmitters..
Not really. A sensible broadcaster will have some sort of backup power for the programme chain, but that probably wouldn't extend to lighting.
Next paragraph.
"Tests being carried out by the electricity supply company took all public broadcasting channels in the Netherlands off-air for more than half an hour when back-up batteries ran out."
Not watched it (yet) but they mention batteries running out. Wouldn't be surprised if essential/key technical equipment is powered by a BFO UPS of the hundred kW variety. Stripped down to the bare essentials modern TV kit doesn't take all that much power. Lights still do though...
ah.. their UPS all ran dry.. No diesel eh?
On Monday 04 November 2013 17:44 Bill Taylor wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Sounds like the dreaded UPS test scenario:
1) UPS reporting good battery status: check 2) Cut mains power in: check3) *plip*
Lights probably eat more power than almost everything else. maybe the back up generator could only handle to low power stuff. Brian
Hmm, well obviously not enough preventitive maintanaince then. Brian
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