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Re: Re[2]: Boat Load of Backups



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Yeah, it's called a bass boat powered UPS ;-) Gotta love those deep cycle 
marine batts from Walmart!

>another trick is, get a 500VA backup and take battery leads out and
>hook them up to a large battery, you just added wh capacity,
>hooking up more batteries in parallel you can gain whatever capacity you need.

Propane or natural gas works great

>and yet finally, some ups backups have genset start outputs, but your genset
>must have auto-start system. what happens is ups senses power failure and
>starts genset automatically  for you after x minutes of no power, then 
>there are
>system that will e-mail you or call you and tell you that your power is down.
>it then depends on your fuel tank capacity and gas prices :)

MT