[ale] power

[Derek Atkins]

I've got a 3kW UPS with a secondary battery pack.  It backs up my server
rack and network equipment for about 2 hours.  Hopefully I'll get a nice
NG Generator installed to take over so it wont need to be as powerful.

-derek

On Mon, September 8, 2014 1:34 pm, Jim Kinney wrote:
> At home, I have a rather beefy APC to support a server, switch and cable
> modem until the 15KW natural gas generator kicks in.
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:25 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in this from a "need to get better power support" at
>> home.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Had a power blink that hit the entire campus, hospital, everything at
>> > Emory. Operating rooms went dark for about 10 seconds then it all came
>> > back.
>> >
>> > There are at least 2 substations that power Emory. The hospital is
>> SUPPOSED
>> > to be power-outage proof (thus MY concerns for the ebola work!).
>> >
>> > What power outage gear is being used at home by ALE? At work by ALE
>> people?
>> > Apparently the datacenter here stayed up. But the power outage in the
>> > operating rooms occured while surgery was ongoing including brain
>> surgery
>> > with a computer-controlled microscope.
>> >
>> > Yikes!
>> >
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>> > James P. Kinney III
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>> > Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
>> gain
>> > at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
>> tail.
>> > It won't fatten the dog.
>> > - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
> It won't fatten the dog.
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       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
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