Re: home router battery backup

[Andy Ringsmuth]

> On Jan 13, 2022, at 9:22 AM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
> 
>> The power company said the rotating outages would be 30-45 minutes, which I 
>> do have UPS capacity to handle. But the rotating outage went close to 2 
>> hours, exhausting my UPS capacity and getting to the point where I was more 
>> concerned about the temperature in the building.
> 
> Having had extensive experience with load shedding growing up this side of 
> the world (sadly), the outage period announced by the power company may or 
> may not include the time required to re-energize the affected areas.
> 
> So when they say 30 - 45 minutes, you should ask them if that includes or 
> excludes the time allowance for re-energizing.

The utility had never experienced that before either. The entire city only had 
a couple hours notice that this would be happening.

Oh well. We got through it.



-Andy