Emergency BackUp Power

Emergency Back-up Power

Faculty members or departments concerned about the effects of short term power outages or small variations in electrical service (e.g. voltage surges, spikes, or outages of a few seconds) are recommended to acquire an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for their equipment.

The Clark Science Center has emergency generators that will start up within approximately 10 seconds of a power outage. The purpose of an emergency generator is to supply power during longer outages for life-safety infrastructure (e.g. emergency lighting, fire alarms) and select equipment used for long-term storage of critical materials. The following equipment is powered by emergency generators (information supplied by Facilities Management).

Note: elevators are not connected to back-up generator.

Ford Hall

The following rooms in Ford Hall have red outlets indicating backup power supply:

FH002 (2)
FH004
FH005
FH006
FH31A (BSL3), 4 outlets: freezer, incubator, fridge, freezer
FH101
FH103 (2)
FH104 (2)
FH106 (2)
FH124
FH126A cold room
FH130 (7)
FH131 (14)
FH135 (10)
FH136 warm room
FH203 (14)
FH204 (5)
FH206 (2)
FH210
FH220 cold room
FH222
FH230 (3)
FH230A
FH232
FH222A (3)
FH220B
FH236 cold room
FH238 (5)
FH302
FH303
FH304
FH305
FH306
FH330 (2)
FH331 (2)
FH342
FH343
FH335 (2)

Sabin-Reed & Burton

Room # Equipment
Vivarium Vivarium
Vivarium  Cold Room
Roof Exhaust fans E52 & E53 serving hoods in SB12 & SB13 (hazardous materials room)
SR-024 Incubators
SR-025 Fish Room
SR – 127 Seimens Security Panel
SR-222 Chest Freezer
SR-222 Fridge/Freezer
SR-324 Cold Room
SR-346 Neg 80 Chest Freezer
SR-346 Chest Freezer
SR-346 Neg 80 Freezer
SR-401 Suite Fridge/Freezer
SR-401 Suite Fridge/Freezer
SR-401 Suite Neg 30 Freezer
SR-403 Warm Room
SR-406 Neg 40 Freezer
SR-406 Fridge/Freezer
SR-406 Shaker Incubator
SR-406 Up Right Freezer
SR-406 Fridge/Freezer
SR-407 Cold Room
SR-408 Fridge/Freezer
SR-409 Freezer
SR-427 Freezer
B-202 Neg 80 Freezer
B-202B Upright Freezer (Neg 20)
B-202B Fridge/Freezer
B-218 Upright Freezer (Neg 20)
B-218 Deli Fridge
B-218 Incubator

McConnell

McConnell basement – Alarm for low oxygen sensor (Nat Fortune lab)

General Equipment

Emergency lighting in Ford, Burton, SR, McC, and Bass

Fire alarm panels

Sprinkler compressor (fire suppression)

Critical HVAC equipment

Emergency generator exhaust fans & fuel supply
Automatic temperature control air compressor