RE: Anyone UPS's Home Cinema stuff

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean,

I think it makes a lot of sense to put such devices on a UPS. The main
advantage being that you will remove brownouts and sudden on-off-on
transitions.

If your not looking for cover during an extended outage, which could be
several hours, then enough capacity to allow a controlled shutdown in
software would suffice...

As with most things bigger is better, your limiting factor will be
accommodation. Look for a second hand unit that can shut down the PC with a
serial or USB interface (10 minutes should be ample, you could delay for an
additional 15 minutes to cover 90% of outages) something between 1 or 2
KVA...

Interested to see you mention the self resetting RCD. I fist saw these used
in Spain for remote sites which suffered from lighting strikes. My concern
would be Circuits energising automatically if someone thought it
dead/isolated...

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Barrett [mailto:dean@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 May 2006 14:01
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Anyone UPS's Home Cinema stuff



Due to increasingly regular powercuts in our village (the last one
knackered
my HTPC) - i was thinking about putting a UPS on DVD/Sky+/Amp/HTPC setup.

Is anyone doing the same - if so what size UPS does the job.

I'm just thinking of about 15 mins of uptime which will usually overcome
the
worst outages - but makes sure everything is in sync when SWMBO next goes
to
use it all :)

I'm also about to try out a self resetting RCD if anyone is interested - we
get tripping when v.windy (overhead supply), and i've stumbled across an
RCD
than when tripped checks if all circuits are clear, and then resets itself
!!



Dean.




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