[Tfug] UPS

[Bender]

How much load do you intend to have on the UPS? And how long do you want the 
power to stay up?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ed Wilson
To: 'Tucson Free Unix Group'
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 3:59 PM
Subject: [Tfug] UPS


Hello,

This is not a UNIX/Linux question but it has to do with all computers so I 
thought this would be a good place to ask this question.

I lost power to my house two times in two days. This made me start thinking 
that I need a UPS for my system.

I don't want one of those toy UPS boxes that we can buy, I want to build my 
own with a deep cycle RV battery, an inverter and be able to keep the 
battery charged at all times.

I knew someone that did something like this but he used an old broken UPS as 
the "hardware" by just replacing the contained UPS batteries (which went 
bad) with a car battery.

Has anyone on this list done something like this? If so could you tell me 
what you used for hardware: inverter, charger, and how they work.

I have a fundamental idea of how this works but not having ever actually 
done it I thought I would seek some advise if possible.

Thanks, Ed



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