For a mear 5 thousand dollars you can buy a Generac home standby system that
will start on it's own. No need to climb out of the sack in the middle of the
night.
On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Joe Curry wrote:
> Probably the cheapest way to do it is get an inexpensive gasoline powered
> generator that can be started during that 15 minutes that the UPS takes
> over. Of course during the night, there would need to be some sort of
alarm
> to notify the operator that there is an outage. (Not to mention the hassle
> of actually getting out of bed and starting up the generator).
>
> Joe
>
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> From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Clark W. Nicholls
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 10:44 AM
> To: 'Mark J Bradakis'; fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Fot] UPS power backup
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I always wondered if it was possible to connect several car batteries to a
> gel-cell UPS of any capacity (mine are 450-650 VA) to extend the time.
>
> Add some connectors to the UPS chassis and connect the car batteries.
>
> Perhaps they can be not-connected until the power outage and manually
> connected during operation?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Clark
> Clark W. Nicholls
> 1972 Stag 1974 Spitfire (and 1 rusty GT6 needing restoration)
> "Reality, it's not what you think."
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> We had the power go out in our neighborhood for several hours
> overnight. I can't afford a UPS to keep the servers running for
> THAT long, I've got maybe 15 minutes or so.
>
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