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Re: OT: APC back-UPS pro 1400
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Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:10:02 GMT
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Derek Raycraft wrote:
> Chris Magno wrote:
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> > NO, my tastes run to obscure/cheap/easy.
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> > Like, if on the off chance, that UPS would have worked, then it met
> > the cheap/easy solution.
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> > Some other ideas I have floated were those "drill" powered self
> > priming pumps. (to be run of my cordless drill) and a 400W inverter I
> > "got"
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> > all ideas that for one reason or another, end up on the "bench" in a
> > pile of parts.
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> You could always use one of these:
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> http://paddling.net/sameboat/Images/bailer.gif
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> Derek
A version of that IS my current back up system. Some time ago, when
those (&^&^$ at hydro couldn't get there (^(*^ together(1) and My
neighborhood lost power for a day, I had to use a 5 gallon bucket as the
backup system. At night, I set my battery powered alarm clock to go of
ever 40 min, and I would bail.
I need something that would not require me to get my precious manicured
hands wet.(2)
Chris
1. Oh sure, "they" will say it was the storm. YA right. I think it was
Rob A, and he was punishing me for some comment I made the week before.
YA Rob, I KNOW the truth. I know secretly ALL Hydro Employees, have
access to the "kill their power" computer.(3)
2. YA RIGHT. i got callouses on my callouses.
3. BTW rob, did you find that software I was asking about?
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