Doug Reed: > I was definitely over the top for options, but Brian's original email > didn't say what the purpose was of the system, but he did seem to > indicate he wanted it to keep running for days at a time, not just > minutes. If it is a critical piece of hardware, the suggestions should > reflect that. That's OK. I didn't mention that this server is inside an office building. The propane and other generators you mentioned are interesting from a long term perspective. I've thought about buying a UPS which would last longer, but I tend to agree that beefing up the UPS isn't the way to go. This is just a guess but I think I could get by with 100 watts when the power goes out. I don't know how much I could produce with a bike generator. That evening my UPS was beeping periodically and then about 15 seconds or so before it died, it started beeping wildly. I turned on the monitor to shut down the server, but I wasn't sure if I was fast enough or if it had lost power before it had time to do much of the shutdown. At any rate, when the power came back on, the server did also without me having to be there. I had gone to bed and just checked on things from home when the power came on. -- Brian Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130623/fffbac9c/attachment.html>