IDK, that's not a lot of juice on that, Brian... What's the VAC rating of your UPS? My 1500 ran over 100 minutes when I turned off my server - it was at 23 minutes before that. On 6/22/2013 4:57 PM, Brian Wood wrote: > Yesterday evening the power at my office went out and was > off for about 8 hours. My APC UPS lasted for about 50 minutes > of that. I'm thinking about buying a Duracell emergency power > source. > http://www.amazon.com/Duracell-DRPP600-Powerpack-Starter-Emergency/dp/B009YR00MI/ref=pd_sim_auto_5#productDetails > > The instructions for the APC UPS say to only plug it directly > into a wall socket. I'm wondering if I could plug the Duracell > thing into the APC UPS and then plug my computer stuff to that. > > The alternative is to use them one at a time and manually switch > from the APC UPS to the Duracell thing when the APC UPS is almost > dead. I was around last evening so it wouldn't have been a problem, > but if chaining them would work, it wouldn't matter if I wasn't around. > > I'm also thinking about bicycle generator systems: > http://www.pedalpowergenerator.com/ > > I've seen Frank and Amelia use something like that at the State Fair. > > What do you think? > > -- > Brian Wood > Ebenezer Enterprises - So far G-d has helped us. > http://webEbenezer.net > > > If you're thinking of buying something over the internet, you might > want to buy it before the DFL taxes on online purchases kick in on > July1st. I think prices will increase by 6.5% after that. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130622/74f323bf/attachment.html>