Re: [SLUG] Florida (?Tampa?) Power-outage occurance..

From: Jan Mason (td376@mail.anonymizer.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 10:00:16 EDT


Intel 33mhz 486 with a 15" monitor running red hat 4.1. This is the UPS that
the consultant said I needed for my system. Seems to work ok. I have had it
for about four years now.

On Wednesday 26 June 2002 07:38 am, you wrote:
> What the hell were you running that you needed so much juice?
>
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jan Mason wrote:
> > Hey Mark,
> > I have an APC 2200XL with an extra batter pack. 175lbs worth of back-up.
> > The main unit weighs in at 125lbs and the battery pack weighs 50lbs. You
> > can add up to ten extra battery packs to the APC 2200XL. This is a real
> > sweet setup because if your load goes up or you need more backup capacity
> > all you do is add some more battery packs. The main unit goes for around
> > $1200-$1400 and the battery packs go for $350 last time I checked. I got
> > this setup because I was living in the north Georgia mountains near
> > Gainesville. Lots of power problems. If you order any UPS try to get it
> > locally. They will kill you with shipping costs. I special ordered my
> > from a consultant in Atlanta, GA. He charged me more than the on line
> > sellers would but he did not charge me any shipping. So I was cheaper.
> > Also note that this takes a dedicated 30 amp circuit.
> >
> > On Wednesday 26 June 2002 07:55 am, you wrote:
> > > > Bill
> > > > --
> > > > 11:21pm up 5:19, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.02
> > > >
> > > > (Four hr power outage beats 1 hr UPS.)
> > >
> > > What is the DEAL with the power outages around here?? I went for two
> > > whole years in Germany without one single power outage -- I've lived
> > > here for a little over three weeks and there have already been two, one
> > > that lasted for at least 5 hours. Are the power co. techs that
> > > incompetent or is the infrastructure that weak? I'd think that they
> > > would have found some way to protect the system from mother nature by
> > > now...
> > >
> > > Marc W.
> > > -------------------------------------------
> > > "Freedom as in Free Beer is what I'm after"
> >
> > --
> > Jan Mason
> > td376@mail.anonymizer.com
>
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-- 
Jan Mason
td376@mail.anonymizer.com
813-546-0644



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