[ale] Preventing reboot on short duration power loss

Richard Bronosky Richard at Bronosky.com
Sat Jun 27 14:36:58 EDT 2009


I wouldn't spend my money on an UPS without AVR. In fact, what you are
experiencing may be a brown-out instead of a black-out, and a UPS may
not even activate.

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jason Fritcher<jkf at wolfnet.org> wrote:
> On Jun 27, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Andrew Grieser wrote:
>> Because this seems to happen somewhat often, I need a way to keep
>> the computer running through a short duration power loss. Any advice
>> on choosing a UPS? It honestly only has to last about a second, with
>> about a 200 watt load on it.
>
> I've always been partial to APC UPSes.
>
> If your load is under 200W, try this...
>
> http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0286288
>
> If it is over 200W, then I would go with this...
>
> http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0286289
>
> The first does not have a data port for a controlled shutdown before
> the battery dies. If that is an important feature, then go with the
> second which does have the needed data port.
>
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> Jason Fritcher
> jkf at wolfnet.org
>
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