[ale] OT: U.P.S. Recommendations

[Scott Castaline]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 13:24 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>> Bob Toxen wrote:
>>> Some of the previous posters make good points about very sensitive
>>> equipment and generators.  (I have yet to try driving my UPSs from
>>> my fairly new generator.)
>>>
>>> That said, I've used exclusively APC for about 12 years with excellent
>>> success.  That includes NO fried equipment even though one of my ceiling
>>> fans fried during a storm.  Standard boxes, even cheap white boxes,
>>> will do just fine with APC or others that only invert when the Georgia
>>> Power doesn't.
>>>
>>> IMPORTANT NOTES ESPECIALLY AS WE HAVE ENTERED THUNDERSTORM SEASON:
>>>
>>> 1. You need to change your UPS batteries every 3-5 years.  To test
>>>    their health shut your systems down and boot to the BIOS level
>>>    and leave them there.  That means that you will NOT have active
>>>    file systems that could get corrupted on abrupt shut down.
>> Better yet, boot to a bootable OS like knoppix or something so you have 
>> a gui running that will really pull more juice then the bios screen.
>>
>> Just make sure that the bootable OS doesn't mount any existing file systems.
> 
> I prefer to use Windows machines to test for things blowing up or
> crashing. Since I don't care about the windblows file system data, if it
> get crapped, so what! It is a disposable OS any way.
> 
> 
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