<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Can't say I've had an issue there since bub was born.. - first power outage more than 2 minutes and she ok'd buying new batteries for the little 1kva APC jobbies I have scattered around the house.. and after the first power outage of more than an hour took out our internet because the big 3kva jobbie in the garage only lasts an hour (and i think not being able to use the microwave helped), i have the go-ahead to buy an electric-start diesel ~4kva genny when i find one that's relatively cheap :) It's all about putting it into something that stops THEM being inconvenienced ;)<div><br></div><div>Now replacing my commodore with another 4wd? That's taken about 2 years of grumbling about 'these bloody newfangled no-ground-clearance, hard-to-work-on POS things!' that finally ended with us getting stuck in nowra for a couple of days because for some reason noone stocks alternators for VT commodores?! Picking up a '94 pajero in canberra next thursday :) (and racing back saturday arvo so I'm back home for the hamfest!)</div><div><br></div><div>--DG</div><div><br><div><div><div>On 18/02/2010, at 6:33 PM, Scott Evans wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I've been quite lucky in that sense... (UPS) as I've been given 2 of the small 10-15 minute jobs that are enough to shutdown my server and desktop (using NUT)<br> <br> But Ray, I too would suffer the same issue from the minister for "Love & War" <span><face-wink.png></span><br> <br> On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 18:12 +1100, Ray Wells wrote: <blockquote type="CITE" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "> <pre>I know where to get the UPS but I can't convince the Manager of Domestic
Financial Services.
Ray vk2tv
Norm, VK3XCI wrote:
> It was VERY quiet in the shack again tonight. Rebboted the Linux box and VK3XCI
> is iGating again
>
> Hafta Find an UPS someplace
>
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