[ale] help providing stable power to pc's to ride through storms

[Wolf Halton]

+1 Mike
The small-office/prosumer items fail for lack of wattage, in my recent
experience. I had 2 of these fail in succession trying to supply power to a
750watt hp server, even though there was no power failure.

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On May 21, 2012 9:51 PM, "Mike Harrison" <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I need some electrical power advice. It's possible you will give me the
> > answer and I won't be able to afford it, but I'd like to know what you
> > think.
>
> Your power bill probably reflects your need to have everything running all
> the time. But that's another issue.
>
> Buy a real UPS. Not a home or prosumer APC, but a real one.
> I think the trip-lite online ones are a great value.
>
> http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/product-series.cfm?txtSeriesID=937
>
> These and many others should be easy to monitor via SNMP,
> and shut down nicely as they hit low battery capacity.
>
> Two examples of SNMP monitoring a UPS in a minimal fashion:
>
> http://www.geeklabs.com/index.php?mode=articles&submode=comments&uniq=26
> http://www.geeklabs.com/index.php?mode=articles&submode=comments&uniq=17
>
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