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Backup Battery. Do you use it?
Klocknov:
On this system I had to turn of hibernate for stand-by due to system hangs when it was trying to come out of hibernation... My other box I dunno if I did it or not, though with how I built it I shouldn't have to worry about system hangs, and this one I don't think I need to worry about it either anymore due to cleaning some stuff up...
misachaos:
Tatsu, in vista its located in Power Settings and options. Just make a custom power setting :P
boxer4:
I got myself a free broken UPS about a year ago, it's a 1KVA model. Course it was the batteries that were shot, so I had to buy a new set -- probably the biggest cost of a new ups. Anyway since then, I've only had one 1-minute power outage and the UPS was able to carry through, saving a crash/reboot. Since it's 1KVA it could carry through much longer, estimating around 45min to 1h reserve time before it runs out of energy.
The stupid thing is, I rarely get power outages here since power lines are buried in my neighborhood.
These larger models tend to have voltage regulation included. So if line power drops somewhat, it will increase it a bit, and same with overvoltage - it will decrease it. If it gets way out of whack in either direction, it will resort to using batteries.
misachaos:
--- Quote from: boxer4 on August 22, 2009, 11:48:05 PM ---I got myself a free broken UPS about a year ago, it's a 1KVA model. Course it was the batteries that were shot, so I had to buy a new set -- probably the biggest cost of a new ups. Anyway since then, I've only had one 1-minute power outage and the UPS was able to carry through, saving a crash/reboot. Since it's 1KVA it could carry through much longer, estimating around 45min to 1h reserve time before it runs out of energy.
The stupid thing is, I rarely get power outages here since power lines are buried in my neighborhood.
These larger models tend to have voltage regulation included. So if line power drops somewhat, it will increase it a bit, and same with overvoltage - it will decrease it. If it gets way out of whack in either direction, it will resort to using batteries.
--- End quote ---
Here due to all the hurricanes the buried power lines where having power problems and caused almost every other day the power to go out for 5-10 minutes. and due to some issues the Housing board couldn't fix the issue for a whole year :P so no one is safe from power outages.
darren42:
i don't use any battery backups in my house, only surge protected powerboards
the power at my place is pretty reliable. we rarely ever have any blackout or brownout
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