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Where I live is pretty rural. 4 wire, 3 phase coming along the road. Older properties (like mine) on TT with some of the newer builds on PME......until the pikeys thieve the earth tie downs on the poles as frequently happens! Me, I'm sticking with the rod!
Anyway, we USED to suffer from frequent power cuts - a week long one time. I even bought a 2300W petrol gennie from Macro when they were going cheap. Fired it up, ran a work light off it to try it and promptly NEVER used it since! Sod's Law that for the first time in YEARS we had a power cut last night. Only off for an hour and a half but it got me thinking about "next time". If nothing else to keep the central heating going and maybe the lights.
Obviously I will NOT be going with the double ended plug lead as is my neighbours favourite trick. Saying that he has been kind enough to run a lead over from next door before now just so we could save the frozen foods.
So I have the gennie but I've just got a skipped, rack mount UPS, and a big one at that - YES, IT'S PERFECTLY LEGIT. The BMS was flooded and this was replaced as part of the insurance claim along with servers etc. Nothing wrong with a lot of stuff that gets skipped as usual (I'm hoping)!
It's this one:
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=sua2200rmi2u
Just gone to charge it up and realised I've NOT got the "bigger" IEC plug to do so.
Anyway, I've roughly tallied the central heating requirements:
Grundfoss pump: 90W
Riello oil boiler pump: 125W
x2 2-port & x1 3-port valves: 15W
These plus a couple of Tower QE2 controllers, so all up less than 250W. Am I reading the runtime graph right that I should get probably doing 3 ish days out of it? Obviously more as the boiler switches on and off.
Thinking it would be worth getting this UPS up and running and fitting a changeover switch for the heating supply.
Any hints, tips appreciated!
Anyway, we USED to suffer from frequent power cuts - a week long one time. I even bought a 2300W petrol gennie from Macro when they were going cheap. Fired it up, ran a work light off it to try it and promptly NEVER used it since! Sod's Law that for the first time in YEARS we had a power cut last night. Only off for an hour and a half but it got me thinking about "next time". If nothing else to keep the central heating going and maybe the lights.
Obviously I will NOT be going with the double ended plug lead as is my neighbours favourite trick. Saying that he has been kind enough to run a lead over from next door before now just so we could save the frozen foods.
So I have the gennie but I've just got a skipped, rack mount UPS, and a big one at that - YES, IT'S PERFECTLY LEGIT. The BMS was flooded and this was replaced as part of the insurance claim along with servers etc. Nothing wrong with a lot of stuff that gets skipped as usual (I'm hoping)!
It's this one:
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=sua2200rmi2u
Just gone to charge it up and realised I've NOT got the "bigger" IEC plug to do so.
Anyway, I've roughly tallied the central heating requirements:
Grundfoss pump: 90W
Riello oil boiler pump: 125W
x2 2-port & x1 3-port valves: 15W
These plus a couple of Tower QE2 controllers, so all up less than 250W. Am I reading the runtime graph right that I should get probably doing 3 ish days out of it? Obviously more as the boiler switches on and off.
Thinking it would be worth getting this UPS up and running and fitting a changeover switch for the heating supply.
Any hints, tips appreciated!
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