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. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
