Barrie Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 small world eh we had a power cut that started an hour ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 still no power and laptop almost dead 5 hours thanks to a boy fracer that hit a lamp-post heat pads taped to the front of thje tanks and Im off to bed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetu Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Uh-oh Barrie Good luck! Off to bed at 9pm... I suppose there's nothing left to do in the evenings if there's no light to watch your fish by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 Powers back on Im sure all will be fine although the same cant be said for the boyracer as he was taken to hospital... it makes you wonder how he can totally distroy a lamp-post on a straight road. Not a very long road.. possible 3 or 400 meters long and the lamp-post is half way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Posted July 20, 2008 Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 no losses and another power cut in the middle of the night... 4.5 hours for the first one and I dont know how long for the second What concerned me was that I had just finnished my water changes at about 4 and the power went off at 4.15. The last 2 tanks got 40% changes as I didnt do them last week and so they had just had reasonable cold water added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted July 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2008 No losses is always good. At least you were around when it happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Yes! The filters seem to work fine on my UPS! Didn't think they would since it doesn't produce a sine wave. Now, just need to find some IEC connectors...Dick Smith has them...For $14 each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 I just used one and put it on a power box, all the outlets on the UPS will be wired in parallel anyway. Actually thinking about it, it's wired onto the end of a extension lead now, since I can't fit my UPS under the cabinet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 I just used one and put it on a power box, all the outlets on the UPS will be wired in parallel anyway. Actually thinking about it, it's wired onto the end of a extension lead now, since I can't fit my UPS under the cabinet Yeah, I was thinking that. Could grab a cheap extension cord and power strip, bit of soldering and it'll be done. I have some jumper cables to connect it to the car battery and enough extension cords around to reach the filters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Car battery well be fine for a one off, but normally you should use a deep cycle battery, like a marine battery. Are you going to leave this setup and going while your away?? Bit dodgy if you ask me, my old UPS (was a decent APC smart UPS) was over charging the batteries, they got all swollen and split, made a mess of the inside of the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Car battery well be fine for a one off, but normally you should use a deep cycle battery, like a marine battery. Are you going to leave this setup and going while your away?? Bit dodgy if you ask me, my old UPS (was a decent APC smart UPS) was over charging the batteries, they got all swollen and split, made a mess of the inside of the case. It's only meant to be a one off. Why would I want to have 3 extension cords running to opposite ends of my house permanently. And I'll have my father in law who is looking after the cats, birds and fish, unplug the UPS and plug everything back in where it belongs afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richms Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Check if the battery is isolated from the mains, its not on most small cheap UPS's, so you have high voltages on the terminals of the 12v battery with respect to earth. Even some with external battery connectors are not isolated, as I found out when I let the sparks out of one spectacularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted July 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 do you really think it will be a problem? often the outages are for far less. Discovered on the morning that the UPS would happily run a single filter, but not all 3. So I had to risk it and just run one. And the nice little 5 hour "Often are for far less" outage according to the guy I had checking them turned out to be approx 8 hours judging from the amount clocks were off. No deaths as of last report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 good to hear but must admit that longer than usual in not normal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted August 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 good to hear but must admit that longer than usual in not normal Longer than usual isn't normal. Longer than claimed however is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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