computers and the Yeast Cell Biology Blackout 2003

[Jonathan Parsons]

A quarter after 7-- I arrived at the lab to try to figure out what to do for the presentation that was planned for that day's Yeast Cell Biology Meeting…considering we did not have lights. I found out that we had a generator at 7:30 when a facilities worker said he could get us one line, the rest would be needed to power the computers downstairs which they also wanted to get up- so they could only give us one line to run the show and we were able to plug in a six strip and we multiplied this by plugging in another six strip and using this we turned on all the computers, projectors, the sound system and with that one line we also made a copy of the presentation on DVD. We were able to run a whole show off of that one power line. We knew there was a limit but we did not know exactly where it fell... we hooked in many circuit breakers hoping that the line would cut out if it was drawing too much power before it affected the whole generator.