[mythtv-users] UPS with mythbuntu
Eric Sharkey
eric at lisaneric.org
Wed Feb 25 18:41:24 UTC 2015
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> In rural areas in particular, there are still a *lot* of overhead phone cables strung for miles
It's all overhead in many places. Power, TV, phone, NSA monitoring
network lines.... it all goes on the poles.
> Where I used to work, we were on the end of a rural distribution network of overhead cables (11kV, we had our own substation). I found that power cuts generally fell into one of a small range of lengths :
> - A few seconds - [..]
> - A few minutes - [..]
> - 90 minutes +/- only a few - [..]
> - "Hours" - [..]
My record outage so far is a few hours short of 7 days. The UPS on my
backend couldn't survive that one. Thankfully that sort of thing
doesn't happen very often.
Eric
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