"Flash Wilson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:35:56 +0100, Peter Ashby
wrote:
Computer people recommend those living in houses with dodgy wiring buy
protected power supplies to A) smooth out those brownouts and B) provide
some power during cuts. Might be worth bearing in mind, at least for the
filters?

I am a computer person, and you're right, but if we did buy a UPS
(Uninterruptible Power Supply for the non techs) it would most likely
find itself moved to the room with our servers in.

Plus the wiring would be freaky, because with small (domestic use)
ones you plug stuff into it, and the rooms with filters I'd like to
protect are too far apart for the same UPS. And I think they often
only have PC kettle-lead style sockets for hanging equipment, but
I could be wrong on that.

And it would take a fairly expensive UPS to cover the length of
power outage I had yesterday - over 13 hours - and huge batteries!
They are really tailored to short use, the time it takes to get
a generator going for example.

Not knocking the idea - just explaining that we've thought about
it before and this is what I've come up with. Plus of course I can't
afford one at the moment - otherwise I'd upgrade the Fluval 204 to
something more reliable...


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Flash Wilson

How about a small petrol powered generater? Can be had for a couple of
hundred quid from Makro (or could last time I was there). Handy for all
sorts of things during power cuts.

GR