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Title: Power outage....back online now! Post by: Gizmo on November 15, 2003, 03:21:43 pm I swear these things only hit us, well and the ski hill plus some neighbours also. We were without power for 46 hours, finally came back on a few minutes ago. The UPS will only run for so long before all hope is lost.....
On my shopping list next time I go to Princess, a big generator. Thought I saw a surplus on a pallet plus a nice 20hp twin engine that would run it half decent ;D Unless someone has a 20hp+ they want to donate to the cause, lmk! Title: Re:Power outage....back online now! Post by: dguy on November 17, 2003, 08:45:55 am Nick, you're not alone.
I never owned a UPS before I moved in to my current apartment; I bought one out of fear for my hardware a month after I moved in. Seems like any little bit of excitement from mother nature gives us a least a brown-out. ::) It might be overkill to some, but if I ever finish building a "running" stand for the 'Stang's original motor, I'm sorely tempted to hook a generator up to it's tail! Title: Re:Power outage....back online now! Post by: JetJumper on December 02, 2003, 10:44:43 am Nick, Take some more Car batteries and Wire them in Parrellel with the UPS! ;)
Title: Re:Power outage....back online now! Post by: aaron88 on December 02, 2003, 11:38:54 am Is the battery part of the UPS a 12 volt or a 24 volt? You may need to wire in a couple parallel series circuits.
Aaron . Title: Re:Power outage....back online now! Post by: Gizmo on December 02, 2003, 01:47:16 pm You could say I got bored. ;D I've already gone that far....I have a bank of 4 marine deep cycles in series and parallel....being nicely floated at 28 volts. For the times when the power goes, and I happen to be around, I have a 4 hp engine running an alternator, running to an isolator and into each 12 volt bank of batteries.
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