As I recently said on another email list - use power generated from dark matter excreted by Nibblonians.
On a more serious note - any electronics that boots an OS (almost all entertainment equipment) and which does not have an internal battery should be protected by a UPS. They can be noisy, but most newer ones are relatively quiet. When you're looking for one, ignore the VA rating - that reflects older equipment that was about 60% efficient. Most new electronics are 90% efficient so you can use the Watt rating. The closer your load gets to 90% of the total watt rating, the shorter the time you have before the UPS runs out of juice. Sine wave output is better for some things - computers don't really care but TVs may. If you do go with solar panels, there are a range of options from solar-panel charged batteries through direct solar panel power with a small inverter to a full solar power system. My wife used the "solar generator" (a battery pack that can be charged with a couple of solar panels) to get through power outages in San Antonio. She liked the system. With the advent of grid-tied solar systems, there is a dearth automatic transfer switches (ATS) for old-fashioned solar panel to battery to inverter to ATS setups. When I first looked into solar power, the systems were built around battery banks charged from the solar panels and fed back into the house through an inverter. If the house was connected to the grid, an ATS would switch between the sources (including, possibly, a generator) favoring the solar source. That type of ATS is now rare, with grid-tied and RV systems dominating the marketplace. Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov (send NIPR reminder) On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:52 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Solar would be nice (as a option) I doubt the landlords would complain. The > Histarical society on the other hand.. and if they existed a matter/anti > matter generator. > > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> > wrote: > Or, there in the land of eternal sunshine, there is nearly always solar > (daylight hours of course). > > On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:48 PM, glen e. p. ropella <g...@tempusdictum.com> wrote: > > > > > A (small) generator is useful, too. > > > > http://powerequipment.honda.com/generators/models/eu2000i > > > > When your UPS beeps, hop over and start the generator. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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