<\/a>Fox Sports’ World Series compound in Kansas City<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cEven with a desktop computer at home, those things are a concern,\u201d says Davies. \u201cNinety-nine times out of 100, it will be fine, but then it will come up with an error. We were fortunate that everything came up somewhat happily and was networking properly. It was miraculous and a testament to how the trucks were built.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the facilities up, the next decision was figuring out how to coordinate the return to the Fox feed. Once that changeover was done, it was back to baseball and, arguably, one of the more exciting and most watched first games of a World Series in years.<\/p>\n
Best-Laid Plans<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>As for the power plan, Davies notes, “We had parallel and redundant generators so that, if one goes down, the other one kicks in. But, for some reason, both engines were killed and powered down, and we still don\u2019t know what caused it.”<\/p>\nCaterpillar provided the twin-pack generator and has even taken fuel and oil samples to the lab to see whether something wrong with those elements could have led to the failure. At this point, though, any thoughts on what happened are strictly conjecture.<\/p>\n
Should the World Series return to Kansas City for Games Six and Seven, Fox Sports will add some diversity to the power plan. The main truck (NEP EN2) will run off the house power with a CAT Entertainment generator as backup, and the pregame truck (NCP 14) will be powered off a generator and have house power available as backup.<\/p>\n
As the World Series shifts to the New York Mets\u2019 home, Citi Field, the plan is to have the three Game Creek Dynasty trucks (which will handle game coverage) run off an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) unit and the Game Creek Freedom truck (handling pregame) powered from parallel generators. A third generator on hand in case the UPS needs it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe used a UPS for an entire month at the Women\u2019s World Cup. It was a feat of necessity because we could not keep a generator running all month,\u201d says Davies. \u201cUPS is tempting to think about. You see more and more of them out there, and we are looking at a UPS array for the U.S. Open golf championship.\u201d<\/p>\n
He adds that the support during Game 1\u00a0came from well beyond those on the compound.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody who works in our position knows that nightmare scenario, and it has happened to everybody,\u201d he says. \u201cWe knew we were definitely not alone as we had texts and e-mails of support coming in. You just need to make sure you are able to respond the right way, and our team worked so quickly to get us up and running.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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