OT: Battery backup

[Richard Kreiss]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 2:35 PM
> To: Richard Kreiss
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: OT: Battery backup
> 
> On 2/25/2011 2:25 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> [...]
> > Auto accident taking out a pole.  BGE had figured 3 hours to get us
> > back online.  It only took 30 minutes.
> 
> Reminds me of when sCC first moved to the Hawthorne office.  The first
year
> we were there, there were either 3 or 4 accidents where a car hit the pole
in
> front of the building, taking out the power.
> 
> [...]
> > One always has cell phones as long as the power isn't completely out.
Re:
> > New York City blackouts - no cell phones but the old POTS phones worked.
> 
> Yup.  I even got a call from fPTech's main office, asking why I wasn't
online.  I
> told them "check the news".
> 
> [...]
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody

It never fails to amaze me when there is a blackout, that people actually
expect their cell phones to work.  Many even get annoyed that their cordless
phones aren't working.

Although all of my phones except of my office are cordless (except the base
phone), I have 2 POTS phones and an extra cordless phone in my server room
connected to a UPS separate from my server.  That one has my network
equipment connected to it as they draw less power than the server.

Also, Verizon supplied a battery backup for their FIOS equipment.  One of
these days, I will add another battery backup unit to increase the run-time.

Richard