-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel wrote: > Now the dual-batteries need to be replaced. I have them out in the > garage, but I had taken the specs to my local W*ntronics store and > they flatly stated that they would not order what I was specifying
In a trip to Sayal (in Burlington) last week I found they have a whole table of third-party UPS batteries! I need to make a trip there to fix up a bunch of UPSes I have laying around... There's a Sayal in Cambridge too, so I suspect there may be one local to Niagara Falls as well. - --Bob. On 2016-06-20 10:54 AM, Daniel Villarreal via talk wrote: > On 06/20/2016 10:21 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 07:58:10PM -0400, Michael Galea wrote: >>> You know of course that the grid frequency is only >>> approximately 60.00 hz. For example, it was 59.97 hz on Friday >>> at around 5 PM. I have heard rumors that the generators spin >>> the grid up to above 60 hz in the early morning hours to >>> compensate for the drift, but I don't know if thats a fact. I >>> often see the grid at 60.01 hz, in the middle of the day >>> though. > >> Hmm, my APC SmartUPS just reports 60.0 or 60.2Hz all the time, >> so I don't think I believe it to be accurate. :) > >> What gismo are you using to measure that? > > Wow, by pressing the right-hand button on my APC Back-UPS XS1000, > I can see lots of status information, nice! > > I also have a Back-UPS XS900, and many years ago it shut down and > beeped constantly, if memory servers, and so I replaced the fan, > and put it back to work. Now the dual-batteries need to be > replaced. I have them out in the garage, but I had taken the specs > to my local W*ntronics store and they flatly stated that they would > not order what I was specifying, and I refused to buy APC-branded > batteries, thinking that I could save lots of money... I should > probably pursue this and post the info at my web site. > > I recently took lots of pictures of the new memorial to Nikola > Tesla down by the Falls, I need to see about putting those online, > as well. If you haven't done so, I highly recommend reading "The > Man Who Invented The Twentieth Century : Nikola Tesla, Forgotten > Genius Of Electricity," by Robert Lomas. > > --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAldoIl8ACgkQuRKJsNLM5eoS0wCfd8YMgrwNrvd9yzcw2K8zhO87 BJ8AnAtj23INBPhAFR14/aehR0qPyPgw =etZN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk