[ale] OT: U.P.S. Recommendations

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 13:24 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Bob Toxen wrote:
> > Some of the previous posters make good points about very sensitive
> > equipment and generators.  (I have yet to try driving my UPSs from
> > my fairly new generator.)
> > 
> > That said, I've used exclusively APC for about 12 years with excellent
> > success.  That includes NO fried equipment even though one of my ceiling
> > fans fried during a storm.  Standard boxes, even cheap white boxes,
> > will do just fine with APC or others that only invert when the Georgia
> > Power doesn't.
> > 
> > IMPORTANT NOTES ESPECIALLY AS WE HAVE ENTERED THUNDERSTORM SEASON:
> > 
> > 1. You need to change your UPS batteries every 3-5 years.  To test
> >    their health shut your systems down and boot to the BIOS level
> >    and leave them there.  That means that you will NOT have active
> >    file systems that could get corrupted on abrupt shut down.
> 
> Better yet, boot to a bootable OS like knoppix or something so you have 
> a gui running that will really pull more juice then the bios screen.
> 
> Just make sure that the bootable OS doesn't mount any existing file systems.

I prefer to use Windows machines to test for things blowing up or
crashing. Since I don't care about the windblows file system data, if it
get crapped, so what! It is a disposable OS any way.


> 
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James P. Kinney III          
CEO & Director of Engineering 
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