I :heart: my UPS
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Outside the building there is some construction going on. For the past few minutes I've been hearing a *BANG* as some large earth moving equipment presumably rams the power substation next to our building. Each time I hear a BANG I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'. I hate to think how everyone else in our building is going.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'
Sometime later, shortly after Paddy and Mick had succeeded in destroying the local power substation, Chris was aghast to learn that the manufacturer of his UPS had recently redefined the meaning of "soothing beeps" to now signify, "My batteries are screwed. Better get them changed quick before your site goes off-line!"
print "http://www.codeproject.com".toURL().text Ain't that Groovy?
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Outside the building there is some construction going on. For the past few minutes I've been hearing a *BANG* as some large earth moving equipment presumably rams the power substation next to our building. Each time I hear a BANG I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'. I hate to think how everyone else in our building is going.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Heh me too. Although there was a lot of cursing in the vicinity by folks whose UPSs were doing double duty as doorstops and little else. :) /ravi
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Outside the building there is some construction going on. For the past few minutes I've been hearing a *BANG* as some large earth moving equipment presumably rams the power substation next to our building. Each time I hear a BANG I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'. I hate to think how everyone else in our building is going.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris, you of all people should know it is
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Outside the building there is some construction going on. For the past few minutes I've been hearing a *BANG* as some large earth moving equipment presumably rams the power substation next to our building. Each time I hear a BANG I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'. I hate to think how everyone else in our building is going.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Just out of curiosity, what UPS are you using? Any recommendations if I wanna get one? Thanks.
:badger:
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Just out of curiosity, what UPS are you using? Any recommendations if I wanna get one? Thanks.
:badger:
Anton Afanasyev wrote:
what UPS are you using?
:thumbsup:CABAC UPS-1700DV2.:thumbsup: Saved our arses oh so many times.
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Just out of curiosity, what UPS are you using? Any recommendations if I wanna get one? Thanks.
:badger:
Big white brick, is a little trigger happy, and I can't for the life of me find the driver software for it. It works, that's all I care!
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Outside the building there is some construction going on. For the past few minutes I've been hearing a *BANG* as some large earth moving equipment presumably rams the power substation next to our building. Each time I hear a BANG I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'. I hate to think how everyone else in our building is going.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
You have to love a device that just works! Mine beeps at me every time I turn on the lights. Maybe I should move a few devices to another circuit...:~
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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You have to love a device that just works! Mine beeps at me every time I turn on the lights. Maybe I should move a few devices to another circuit...:~
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
Mine beeps at me every time I turn on the lights.
It's just being friendly. :) It obviously recognises your presence. Perhaps you should buy it a bunch of volts :rose: next time you visit, you never know where it might lead?
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Just out of curiosity, what UPS are you using? Any recommendations if I wanna get one? Thanks.
:badger:
I've got 4 APC upses running under my desk, and a 5th that I haven't gotten around to plugging in and distributing hardware to...
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I've got 4 APC upses running under my desk, and a 5th that I haven't gotten around to plugging in and distributing hardware to...
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
You would need 5 to build a RAIU. :)
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You would need 5 to build a RAIU. :)
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a RadioActive Iodine Uptake test?[^]
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a Really Awesome Impressive and Unparalleled power supply. :)
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Outside the building there is some construction going on. For the past few minutes I've been hearing a *BANG* as some large earth moving equipment presumably rams the power substation next to our building. Each time I hear a BANG I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'. I hate to think how everyone else in our building is going.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I recall working at a client site many years ago (probably late 80's/early 90's) where we had just had a Prime minicomputer installed to handle the warehouse management/stock control systems. A computer room had been built, with a nice UPS to protect the hardware. Outside in the road, one of the utility companies cut the power lines accidentaly, and the whole computer system went down like a lead zeppelin! The electricians who had wired the computer room had fitted circuit breakers between the UPS and computer, which tripped out when the mains supply went down! The UPS was chirping away quite happily, telling us it was running on battery power, and would have done this for much more than our estimated up time, given the load it was (not) having to handle at the time!
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Outside the building there is some construction going on. For the past few minutes I've been hearing a *BANG* as some large earth moving equipment presumably rams the power substation next to our building. Each time I hear a BANG I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'. I hate to think how everyone else in our building is going.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'.
Exactly. When I bought one, people told me" "Did you really pay that much for some rare situations?". Now whenever I hear the sound I tell myself: "The relief when I hear that sound is worth much much more money."
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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Outside the building there is some construction going on. For the past few minutes I've been hearing a *BANG* as some large earth moving equipment presumably rams the power substation next to our building. Each time I hear a BANG I hear the soothing beep from my UPS saying 'It's OK. I'm covering your back'. I hate to think how everyone else in our building is going.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Last night I was running a calculation that took about 12 hours, when we lost power for 1 hour and 37 minutes. My UPS kept the calculation running, and the answer to the calculation was waiting for me in the morning. Clayton
Clayton
My favorite UPS story: I was in college during finals week, writing up a final paper for some class in my dorm. (I'm sure you know where this is going...) Power goes out, and I hear a strange beeping, then a resounding "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" (and various other words to vent frustrations in a dormful of people who apparently hadn't saved for a while). That beep has never again been so gratifying.
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Last night I was running a calculation that took about 12 hours, when we lost power for 1 hour and 37 minutes. My UPS kept the calculation running, and the answer to the calculation was waiting for me in the morning. Clayton
Clayton
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Last night I was running a calculation that took about 12 hours, when we lost power for 1 hour and 37 minutes. My UPS kept the calculation running, and the answer to the calculation was waiting for me in the morning. Clayton
Clayton
*blink* was your UPS a laptop battery by any chance? that's a huge amount of run time for a desktop. I only get ~30m with a dedicated 1300VA ups.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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*blink* was your UPS a laptop battery by any chance? that's a huge amount of run time for a desktop. I only get ~30m with a dedicated 1300VA ups.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=52&pPath=154&productID=448[^] I have 2 20in. monitors, a pretty decent Xeon desktop, and an external hard drive all plugged into that beast up there. During a tornado outage, I was able to work for 1 hour extra (could probably have been more, but I finished what I was doing). I always feel like I pay too much for these things right after I buy them, but boy that notion goes right out the window as soon as there's an outage!
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http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=52&pPath=154&productID=448[^] I have 2 20in. monitors, a pretty decent Xeon desktop, and an external hard drive all plugged into that beast up there. During a tornado outage, I was able to work for 1 hour extra (could probably have been more, but I finished what I was doing). I always feel like I pay too much for these things right after I buy them, but boy that notion goes right out the window as soon as there's an outage!
Boggle. My 1300VA got the tower only 30m before shutting down. I'll have to check if it didn't stop the DC app I had running automatically (it was supposed to do so); or if my overclocking/overvolting is really making that much of an impact at idle load. (speedstep's disabled and core voltage is fixed because they give too many states that can't be given any sort of extended testing)
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall