I :heart: my UPS
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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
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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"
lights & appliances on same circuit - :thumbsdown: running a pair of Eaton 5120's, we lose power or suffer big power drops at least once a month, so they get regular workouts?
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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
Lucky you. I found out (the hard way) this morning that my UPS's software readings are totally unreliable. Whereas it used to say that everything was fine and I can hook up more devices, after this two-second brown-out this morning (everything got knocked off), the software now pleasantly announced that it's now overloaded and I should remove devices. Gee, I wonder how their algorithm to figure that out works...
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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
If monitors and non system disks are serendipitously, automatically or deliberately put on standby, or better yet powered down, then you should get a considerably longer run out of your UPS.
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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
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It was a desktop. You just need a bigger UPS. :) My monitors were turned off which might have helped some.
Clayton
My ups is 1300VA. My monitors are on a 2nd ups, nothing except the desktop os plugged into that 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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If monitors and non system disks are serendipitously, automatically or deliberately put on standby, or better yet powered down, then you should get a considerably longer run out of your UPS.
monitors are on a 2nd ups, the system with the 30m runtime had a 5 drive raid (dunno how, or if the controller was smart enough to power anything down).
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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monitors are on a 2nd ups, the system with the 30m runtime had a 5 drive raid (dunno how, or if the controller was smart enough to power anything down).
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
RAID array smart enough to detect power fail ? If its internal, then I doubt it. If its external then it might, my old EMC external array can do it via an NMS into which one can plug the EMC and the UPS MIBs, but an NMS is something I just don't happen to have at the moment ;)
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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
My UPS reminds me that it's there by occasionally losing power to my PC even though there's no power problems. And the UPS claims to have 20 minutes of backup power remaining. At least it doesn't constantly beep at me for no reason in this house (or did I just get fed up and turn off the beeps? I don't remember).