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http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/doc/ups-faq.html FAQ about UPS & traditional alternatives PC Power Protection by Mark Waller ISBN 0-672-22637-5 HOWARD SAMS PUBLISHING Consumer Reports 1994 November compared 23 brand/models of Surge Protectors - at least 8 failed - Consumer Reports limited their testing to devices that carried the UL 1449 label PC Magazine 1993 April compared 32 brand/models of Surge Protectors - 6 failed These UPS come rated to supply a certain amount of juice & then you want to hook up additional stuff to it, such as the computer room console, but you may need a flash light to see the keyboard, which is difficult to use by the light from the monitor. One place I worked had both a UPS & a generator because we needed 24 hour up time, but the generator was expensive to run when not needed. The deal was that if the electric went out in the middle of the day it was easy to get to the generator & start it up before the UPS ran out of battery, because lots of people around who knew about this stuff & light from those windows, but if the electric went out at night, the folks on duty using flash lights to navigate & invariably they never got the generator started up before the UPS ran out of battery. You can have UPS wired in parallel with your regular display stations etc. This is called LAP (Local Area Power) but probably more cost effective to have LOCAL UPS in individual clusters of offices, but managing them all to make sure batteries Ok? We have storms come through & the electric company sometimes takes days to get the power back. We shut down the factory, send everyone home, tell them to phone in some place where we have a recorded message (not where the power outage is, because the phones sometimes get flaky when no power for days) that changes when we know when the power will come back, then management calls the electric company every hour on the hour for however many weeks it takes for the electric company to give us an ETA that the power will be returned & we also have someone sitting in the parking lot with a cellular phone in rotation so that if the power is returned without the electric company letting us know it was going to happen we can start the crew coming back in. Due to stuff I purchased for Y2K, I have at home several flashlights plugged into wall plugs ... they get recharged & when the power goes out the flash light lights up so we can find them ... I ought to take one of them into the computer room at work. > From: echabot@marlinfirearms.com (Ed Chabot) > > We are considering some kind of backup power solution, like a generator, to > keep our AS/400 up in the event of a power outage in our area. Does anybody > have any insight, recommendations, experiences, etc? Any info is > appreciated. Thanks. > > Ed Chabot > The Marlin Firearms Company > 100 Kenna Drive > North Haven, CT 06473 > (203)985-3254 MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac) BPCS 405 CD Manager / Programmer @ Global Wire Technologies Incorporated http://www.globalwiretechnologies.com = new name same quality wire engineering company: fax # 812-424-6838 Sep 11 Favorite Links: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/pdf/middle_east.pdf http://www.semitrue.com/thankyou/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TYR http://www.skirsch.com/politics/plane/disable.htm http://www.geocities.com/wasabidoh/Pictures.html - select Attack on America Newspapers World Wide http://www.wheretodoresearch.com/news/foreign_newspapers.htm http://www.wheretodoresearch.com/news/US_Newspapers.htm Intelligence Briefings by country http://www.nsdmg.org - click on REAL WORLD RESOURCES http://www.c-span.org/international/links.asp http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/17/asia.support/ http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/af.html http://www.economist.com/countries http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/search/list/index.html http://www.debka.com/ http://www.stratfor.com
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