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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: Power sources
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Date: 9 Aug 90 19:26:13 GMT
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Index Number: 9650

In article <13301@bunker.UUCP> Tom.Keller@f7.n125.z1.fidonet.org writes:
|Index Number: 9630
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|In a message on 23 Jul 90, Floria Antin (1:109/304) writes:
| 
||| spend a night away from home.  I live in *TERROR* of a power
||| failure in the mmiddle of the night.
| 
|| Isn't it possible to have a back up generator so that the 
|| equipment will receive power even if there is a power outage?
| 
|   Possible?  Yes.  Affordable?  No.  The smallest self-starting
|generator set I can find has about 100 times the capacity I need,
|and prices in at about $1600.00.   That's about $1590.00 more than
|I can afford.

If your head ever decides that you've *gotta* have backup power ...

Consider some of the small computer UPS equipment.  E.g. MCM Electronics
(Centerville, OH) sells a Tripp-Lite power backup box for about $500,
which provides 80 watts for 2 hours or 240 watts for 1/2 hour.  An
inveterate catalog shopper could certainly do a lot better than this.
And, these boxes are portable, unlike a Honda generator.

Me, I think I'd be satisfied with a relay, battery, & buzzer to
wake me up if the power went.  At least that has a chance of fitting
within a $10 budget!
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