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RE: [PLUG] UPS Recommendations?
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Title: RE: [PLUG] UPS Recommendations?
I found cdw to have good prices. The only thing about
UPS's are they are HEAVY. Depends on how long you want
the UPS to run for, and how much your system draws.
If you only want enough time to cleanly shutdown, you
could get away with 800-1000kv APC with the serial link
to linux that will tell it to shutdown when the battery
starts getting low. (should give you about 20 min).
Don't forget to plug your cable modem into the UPS as
well. You don't need to plug your monitor in if your not
going to be there (that will help buy you some time).
What I do is plug in a outlet strip to each of the outlets
on the back of the UPS, then plug my stuff into the
outlet strips.
George
>-----Original Message-----
>From: JP Toto [mailto:viceclown@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 7:16 AM
>To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>Subject: [PLUG] UPS Recommendations?
>
>
>With the recent spat of storms we've had in the area lately, my mail
>server has been knocked off line a few times and I've had to
>wait until
>I got home from work to boot it back up again. I'de like, if possible,
>to hook it up to a UPS so that it will hopefully stay online
>long enough
>for thepower to come back on in my house. I really don't have much
>experience with UPS's so I was wondering what a good solution for a
>Linux box would be? Do any of them come with linux software?
>Do you even
>need to run the software for it to be effectice? Alot of them
>advertise
>serial or usb connections but Im assuming few, if any of them have
>software to run on linux. Im also trying to keep my costs down. Any
>advice would be great!
>
>Cheers, - JP
>
>--
>JP Toto
>viceclown@yahoo.com
>jtoto@member.fsf.org
>
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