I just
asked my boss – who says that there a few APC ups’s here, that
need new batteries,
I don’t know if he wants to sell them (for not very much at all..) or
if they
are free to good home (come
and
pick them up.. they weigh loads).. (3 of in total / with surge protection,
they
are model number 2200)
If
anyone
is interested.. mail me off list..
Jonathan.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Stuart Booth
[mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 August 2002 12:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Thunder,
Lightning ... and UPS'
James Derrick <james@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Aug 2002 22:06:21 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>Okay, I need a UPS. Whole house just powered down for a couple
of
>>seconds before I hear the roll of thunder just now. Not healthy
for
my
>>computers.
>
>Oops!
Indeed! It then happened again later on. The irony was that at
that
very moment the 2nd time I was looking at APC's web site at UPS'
!!!
>Have you also considered surge protectors on your phone, modem,
TV
>etc? Must confess, I don't have any and avoid mains protectors
to
>prevent X10 signals being swallowed by them.
All the HiFi/TV/AV stuff is on surge protected bricks
(Superclamped
Russ Andrews jobs, HiFi folks). I've got most of my PC h/w on
surge
protection bricks. Sadly this morning when I tested my main machine
it
wouldn't power up! I was bricking myself. Turned out the mains
lead
fuse must have gone as I replaced it and it worked fine. This was
the
only lead *not* plugged into a power brick in fact.
I just hadn't got around to getting enough surge protection
brickettes
so not all the equipment are on them yet.
I'm just looking at Belkin's 8-way Surgemaster bricks now.
Horse,
Door, Bolted, I know but it's the catalyst to finishing off what
I'd
started.
I guess I should put a single-way surge protected block into the
mains
socket so that the UPS plugs into that. Then I hang a small
selection
of equipment off of that UPS via a power brickette. Would that
2nd
line brickette still need to be surge protected?
>Remember one of the largest users of power is the monitor. My
server
>UPS just powers the system unit and external SCSI drives, although
you
>may need to power a desktop system's screen to see the buttons
to
>power down!
I'm thinking of getting 2 or 3 UPS':
1) one for my Server which is on 24/7 and any ancillary
equipment
around it (ISDN TA [Thanks Paul!] etc). This will eventually
be
running any HA software I use (HA content! <he grasps>).
2) another for my WebServer box which will also be on 24/7.
3) and finally a third for my main PC which won't necessarily be
on
but is probably the one I most want to protect. I hate seeing
the
cross linked clusters and truncated files warnings you get from
Win2k
at bootup if it doesn't power off cleanly :(
The only monitor I'd power off it would be my TFT. I can then
terminal
server into the other boxes and shut them down gracefully. This
then
assumes that my network switch is UPS-ed as well of course.
Stuart
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Stuart Booth
Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
stuart@xxxxxxx
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