<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Doug Reed:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> I was definitely over the top for options, but Brian's original email</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> didn't say what the purpose was of the system, but he did seem to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> indicate he wanted it to keep running for days at a time, not just</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> minutes. If it is a critical piece of hardware, the suggestions should</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">> reflect that.</span><div><br></div><div>That's OK. I didn't mention that this server is inside an office </div><div>building. The propane and other generators you mentioned </div>
<div>are interesting from a long term perspective.</div><div><br></div><div style>I've thought about buying a UPS which would last longer, but I tend </div><div style>to agree that beefing up the UPS isn't the way to go. This is just a </div>
<div style>guess but I think I could get by with 100 watts when the power goes </div><div style>out. I don't know how much I could produce with a bike generator. </div><div style><br></div><div style>That evening my UPS was beeping periodically and then about 15 </div>
<div style>seconds or so before it died, it started beeping wildly. I turned </div><div style>on the monitor to shut down the server, but I wasn't sure if I was fast</div><div style>enough or if it had lost power before it had time to do much of</div>
<div style>the shutdown. At any rate, when the power came back on, the</div><div style>server did also without me having to be there. I had gone to</div><div style>bed and just checked on things from home when the power</div>
<div style>came on.</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Brian<br>Ebenezer Enterprises<br><a href="http://webEbenezer.net" target="_blank">http://webEbenezer.net</a> <br><br><br></div>
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