[NBLUG/talk] UPS for brownouts

Dean Roman droman at romansystems.com
Mon Aug 13 09:51:49 PDT 2007


William,

  I would be very surprised if the school didn't have some sort of
wireless(802.11) connectivity for the dorms...if not, for about $40 you
could purchase one...this would take care of the ethernet lightning
issue and make life a lot easier for her.

---Dean.




William Tracy wrote:
> I'm having some second thoughts now about buying a line-interactive
> UPS--this is a second-hand computer, after all, and we were trying
> *not* to spend a lot on it. :-P Anybody know of any cheap devices that
> just cut the power entirely if there's a brownout and let the laptop's
> battery take over from there? ;-)
>
> While I'm at it, we're less than happy with the weight of the UPSes,
> since this is going to get mailed to Tennessee and back. I assume it's
> the battery making them so heavy, and there's probably no way around
> it.
>
> Re the ethernet: My original thinking was that an ethernet network is
> going to be all inside the building. If the building I was in got hit
> by lightning and things inside started frying, I wouldn't be worried
> about the computer any more. :-)
>
> FWIW, my sister is going to the dorms at the university in Sewanee
> http://www.sewanee.edu/ so she's not in a mud hut with dial-up. :-) At
> the moment I'm operating under the assumption that they're smart
> enough to cover their own routers from lightning hits.
>
> Anyway, thanks a lot for the replies, everybody.
>
> --
> William Tracy
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>
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> northern California! My resume is online here:
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Dean A. Roman




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