The week after I buy a couple beefy new UPSs, Puget Sound Energy hits me with a 10.5 hour outage that no UPS on Earth could cover. Bleah.

The good news is, I bet they fixed whatever-it-was that was causing the occasional local blinks. The bad news is, I may not end up needing the beefy new UPSs I just bought...

By the way, an APC 500 VA UPS will keep a Power Macintosh G5 dual 2.5 GHz running for approximately... two minutes. Yay. Ah well, it's enough to cover the blinks, which was my main concern.

Re: power out(r)age

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Don McArthur 10/31/2005 5:33:25 PM Pacific

You're very forgiving. I use the same UPS and get about 20 minutes from a Windows 2000 Server on a 2.0 GHz P4, a cable modem and the house firewall/router.

Jerry Kindall

10/31/2005 5:49:46 PM Pacific

Well, let's just say it really needs a 1000VA UPS, but I'm just not going to spend that kind of money. I might go for the 750 but it'll give me like three minutes. Woo.
Around here either the power goes out for two seconds or it goes out for 10 hours, apparently.

Don McArthur

11/1/2005 6:30:50 AM Pacific

Smart. Don't buy coverage you don't need.

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