Re: A .profile puzzle
On Sunday 17 October 2021 15:45:36 songbird wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 17 October 2021 12:39:50 Dan Ritter wrote:
> >> Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> > The local electrical system, while better than Haiti's is getting
> >> > to be a nuisance with 5 second power failures about weekly, or is
> >> > that weakly?
> >>
> >> That's a great case for a UPS...
> >
> > Yup, but thats 4 more of them. Is anybody hving a real sale?
>
> no, you buy one for the whole place and put it on tha main
> panel.
Thanks for the idea, but I have not seen one big enough to handle this
place for the 6 or 7 seconds it takes for the 20kw generac to start. My
now departed wife had COPD and needed non-stop oxygen toward the end, so
I installed the generac about 8 or 9 years ago. It would take a 1500WA
to handle the 2 machines in the garage plus a 1000WA in the shop
building, and another 1000WA for the machine driving my 3d printers.
They only make them whole house sized on bids, bring money in
wheelborrows. I do reserve the right to bitch about the lack of timely
maintenance as I will have to put up with this BS for a year before
they'll replace the contacts in the substations voltage regulator.
BTDT, several times in the 31+ years I've been here. So you could say
I've been to this particular rodeo before.
> i only have a small one here for my PC and a light, but it
> has paid for itself many times over already in not having
> random power outages take me down and mess things up. normally
> when a storm comes through i turn off the PC anyways because
> i really don't want to have things fried (even if i do have
> the UPS and surge protection). i can do something else for
> a while.
>
> if i were running large expensive equipment i'd surely have
> some UPS and surge protection for those. if only just enough
> to get them to shut down without destroying the work in
> progress (or themselves).
>
>
> songbird
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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