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Article #120Re: NeXT Uninterruptible Power Supply recommendations
From: Oliver Brandmueller
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 07:45
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 07:45
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isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell) writes: [need UPS] >What rated capacity is recommended for a NeXT Cube with an external floppy and >CD-ROM drive and a modem (I think I'd need to keep all of these running during >a power failure). NeXTanswers reports that an idling Cube draws less than 150 >watts of power (maybe around 115 W., but I can't recall for sure). My >peripherals are low-power devices, so I would think that my VA load would be >no more than 300 (I think volt-amps = 1.4 * watts). I don't want to buy a >bigger UPS than I really need, although I guess I could run longer on a larger >UPS. What do you need the UPS for? Do you just want to do a safe shutdown (keep the system up for 5 or 10 minutes after power failure and send SIGPWR) or do you want to keep the system up and running for the full time (1 hour? 2 hours? 24 hours?)??? Bye, Olli -- | Oliver Brandmueller | Detmolder Str. 64 | 1000 Berlin 31 | Germany - (FRG) | | Fax: +49 30 8536544 | V: 030/853 69 80 | Cityruf 315 30 68 30 (numerisch) | | "Ich werde Millionaer, heirate Jodie Foster und nehme mir eine Nymphomanin | | als Putzfrau. Dann habe ich alles erreicht." - ob@school |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!fub!obh.in-berlin.de!ob From: ob@obh.in-berlin.de (Oliver Brandmueller) Subject: Re: NeXT Uninterruptible Power Supply recommendations Message-ID: <Y0F8D3G@obh.in-berlin.de> Keywords: UPS Organization: obh - private bbs in Berlin/Germany References: <1croojINN3c2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 92 07:45:02 GMT Lines: 23