It certainly could have caused it if the sparky just worked on the circuits with the Nortel in the on position, he should have powered it down while he was working cause I'm sure he turned the backup on and off a few times to test it. As we all know Brown outs can really mess with a systems programs and if he was testing it then he was creating his own brown outs.

Russ runs a local service and private tech center.

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