Thanks, guys. Really, this isn't a very serious problem requiring a serious solution. In other words, I'm not looking to protect a rack full of equipment. It's really just to keep my house network up when the power fails.
The problem yesterday was that I was connected to a webex session, so when the UPS finally died, I lost connectivity until I could plug into the generator circuit and get the DSL modem booted again. That DSL modem takes *forever* to boot up. So I'm just hoping to find a reasonably inexpensive way to solve the problem of the UPS not charging on generator power. I don't need an automatic transfer switch. A manual switch will do, because I'm home when this is an issue. Basically, when there's a power loss, the UPS will protect the network and keep it running. Once I switch to generator (manually), it'd be nice to have the network stay up on generator power, but to do that I currently have to move the plug to a different outlet. Cheapest, simplest solution so far was the manual Tripplite PDU for about $150. It has more outlets than I need, but would solve the problem. I have to decide whether this problem is $150 worth of problem. :) This has all been good information though. Thanks! -Adam On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Tracy Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 01:35:42PM PST, Adam Levin spake thusly: > > So, options? I could get a different UPS that maybe can handle dirty > power > > better. I could get some kind of power conditioner? I'm not sure what's > > out there, so I'm curious if you guys have solved a similar problem > without > > spending many hundreds of dollars. > > If you have power outages frequently you may want to look into buying your > own > deep cycle batter(y|ies) and an inverter (computers will want a true sign > wave > inverter). Then it is trivial to add capacity and the quality of the > system > tends to be much higher. You will also want an automatic transfer switch > if you > want it to automatically fail over to battery power and not have to plug > specifically into the battery power. > > It really is trivial to setup. Having gone through a number over the years, > I've become rather tired of buying consumer grade APC style UPSs which > never > have enough capacity while the big datacenter grade professional UPSs are > far > too expensive. For long term power solutions you can even connect solar > panels > and a charge controller to the batteries. There are lots of youtube > channels > these days describing how to set all this up. > > I bought all my stuff on Amazon. > > -- > Tracy Reed >
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