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for the time and effort spent in crafting such informative replies.
This is valuable information and makes me wish I had posted prior to
embarking upon what sounds like it may be a flawed strategy. My only
experience with battery backup is an aged, pre usb connection, APC
unit I bought for a buck at the Habitat ReStore where I volunteer.
With a cheap replacement battery it became the power source for a
VOIP landline. We have my nearly 100 year old mother-in-law living
with us and I need to maintain 911 service. To make a terrible pun I
run the modem, router and ATA-adapter through a centenarian apparatus
to guard a centenarian. Its worked flawlessly for nearly three years
through any number of outages and thus served as the impetus to use a
similar strategy for my MythTV box.
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458587448718_2919" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">The major takeaways
for me are as follows:
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458587448718_2917" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">1) The string
metaphor makes the point about duration interval quite well. Nice
turn of a phrase.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458587448718_2902" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">2) What a great
story about APC's non-warrantee; catch-22 at its worst. I should have
purchased a better UPS. I supposed I was swayed by the price and
sheer number of Amazon customer reviews. Thanks for the heads up
about the generator. Does “slice” mean separate hard drive and
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458587448718_2959" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">3) I need to acquire
partitioning skills. I've always just accepted the default settings
when loading Ubuntu which is the distro I use. If anyone knows of a
resource I'd appreciate a quick and dirty reference or two.
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458587448718_2995" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Dave</div><div dir="ltr">
</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, March 20, 2016 8:17 PM, Stephen P Villano <stephen.p.villano@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 3/20/2016 9:10 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:<br clear="none">> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Mike Thomas <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mt3@pfw.demon.co.uk" href="mailto:mt3@pfw.demon.co.uk">mt3@pfw.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> .....<br clear="none">>> Like you I bought APC UPSes for home/office use. APC are a toy<br clear="none">>> manufacturer. Nobody relies upon them for anything but home use, or at<br clear="none">>> least I hope they don't. You get what you pay for.<br clear="none">> I will point out that APC has many different lines of UPS,<br clear="none">> from those targeted at the "cheap" customer that goes<br clear="none">> for whatever is lowest cost at the local consumer<br clear="none">> electronics store, to systems capable of supporting<br clear="none">> a significant (small) data center load. That is not unique<br clear="none">> to APC (as you note). It is not surprising that those<br clear="none">> that purchase cheap get cheap, and should expect<br clear="none">> the equipment (and the users who purchase them)<br clear="none">> to be considered disposable.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> As with all else, even the best manufacturer has<br clear="none">> had specific variants of their devices that are both<br clear="none">> well below, and well above, the "average" for that<br clear="none">> product line, and the environment you are running<br clear="none">> it in always matters. When one wants to actually<br clear="none">> provide useful guidance to someone else, one must<br clear="none">> specify the exact model one purchased, and what<br clear="none">> environment one is running it in. This is true if<br clear="none">> the device is a disk drive (believe it or not, not all<br clear="none">> deskstars are deathstars), or a UPS (a BackUPS<br clear="none">> running at 95% of rated load and always needing<br clear="none">> to buck/boost line voltage in a 35C closet is far<br clear="none">> different than a SmartUPS running at 5% of rated<br clear="none">> load with no need to adjust the line voltage in a<br clear="none">> 20C basement).<br clear="none">><br clear="none">Or even an APC Symmetra, which is a far cry from a BackUPS unit. The old<br clear="none">adage is a truism, you get what you pay for.<div class="yqt3700068453" id="yqtfd14959"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">mythtv-users mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette" target="_blank">http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</a><br clear="none">MythTV Forums: <a shape="rect" href="https://forum.mythtv.org/" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>