Comments on: A few days in power hell http://mikepuchol.com/2009/01/02/a-few-days-in-power-hell/ aut viam inveniam aut faciam Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AustinTX http://mikepuchol.com/2009/01/02/a-few-days-in-power-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-472 AustinTX Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:09:32 +0000 http://the.firehou.se/?p=365#comment-472 LPG is certainly a superior fuel for long-term storage, but gasoline engines simply run too fast, too loud, and too inefficiently. If you need power for more than a day or two, choose a diesel generator. It runs slower, quieter, cooler, and won't tear itself apart running for a week straight. ;) Looks like you made a smart move buying two UPS's for half the cost of one... I lucked out recently and found a $300 UPS with a perfectly good battery at a used store for $30... which is what the replacement battery for my old UPS would have cost! A couple days after I installed it, our power went out... it kept 3 PCs and a shelf of networking gear running for almost 15 minutes without going into "battery nearly drained" panic mode. :) LPG is certainly a superior fuel for long-term storage, but gasoline engines simply run too fast, too loud, and too inefficiently. If you need power for more than a day or two, choose a diesel generator. It runs slower, quieter, cooler, and won’t tear itself apart running for a week straight. ;)

Looks like you made a smart move buying two UPS’s for half the cost of one… I lucked out recently and found a $300 UPS with a perfectly good battery at a used store for $30… which is what the replacement battery for my old UPS would have cost! A couple days after I installed it, our power went out… it kept 3 PCs and a shelf of networking gear running for almost 15 minutes without going into “battery nearly drained” panic mode. :)

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