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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.
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A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 18:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-10-17 18:40 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 19:30 +0200
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    Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-17 20:10 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 20:30 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-10-17 19:00 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 20:20 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-17 21:50 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-17 23:00 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-10-17 23:20 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-18 02:40 +0200
            Re: A .profile puzzle Douglas McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-10-18 03:20 +0200
              Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 06:00 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-10-18 05:20 +0200
  Re: A .profile puzzle Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2021-10-18 07:30 +0200
    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 07:50 +0200
      Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 13:20 +0200
        Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-18 15:00 +0200
          Re: A .profile puzzle Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 15:50 +0200
            Re: A .profile puzzle David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-18 18:20 +0200
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    Re: A .profile puzzle Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-10-24 05:30 +0200

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