Re: UPS's & X10 - now uPS's and lighting

["Richard Challis" <richard@xxxxxxx>]

:)

Mainly extended runtime.

Got a few PC's hooked up, 22 and 19 inch cad grade monitors. CCTV etc

At the moment only set a single led on the load indicator! Will have
snmp
management cards arrive for them tonight <g>

Got some more ups on the way - One is a bypassable monster that took
four
people to lift it into the van. Have over a hundred batteries to test.
I've
seriously looked at just putting the house onto a ups (minus the garage
and
kitchen stuff) ie one on bottom ring, one on upstairs ring. Computer
room
would still have it's own. X10 would cause a issue getting the data
between
the rings so I don't think it's practical. - I've been very interested
in
the discussion about X10 transmission as I suspect I'm getting close to
the
edge.

First stage of my CAT5 flood wiring completed yesterday - 24 ports now
done -  Node 0 and the computer room.

Taken a few photo's for an eventual web site. (yet another ha one!)


I've now had two lightening strikes one was a few years ago and blew up
a
700va ups protecting two computers. They survived.
A few months back had another strike, blew my isdn, vhs video and Tivo
up.
All the computers and ups's survived. Phew! - really missed my Tivo,
brought
another when Mark M put out the post about the cheap ones on the Curry
website - Thanks Mark!

For next time!- Putting the computer that deals with the weather station
(1
wire) and the Tivo on their own little ups. With a fibre between the
computer and the rest of the network. Luckily scrounged two 10baseT to
10baseF ST fibre adaptors from work (left over from a project) so will
have
total galvanic isolation of the data. If I get a tivonet will put a
little
hub on the hot side.
(1 wire station was disconnected due to the flood wiring / moving the
computer room at the time of the lighting strike thankfully)

Regards

Richard


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Booth" <lists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] UPS's & X10


> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:49:38 -0000, "Richard Challis"
> <richard@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Strange about the DDAR, got three about the house and not *yet*
had any
> >problems with X10
> >
> >With two large APC UPS's (5000VA), ...
>
> Wow! What do you use those bad boys for?! Extended life on a PC?
Or
> the TV/HiFi system in the event of a powercut for entertainment?!
:)
>
> Stuart
> --
> Stuart Booth
> Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
>
> stuart@xxxxxxx
>
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