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HighFunctioning
11-13-05, 06:45 PM
What do you do when the power fails? The power is out at my apartment right now, and I'm afraid that I'm going to be in the dark for a while...

HighFunctioning
11-13-05, 08:00 PM
The power is still out...

livinginchaos
11-13-05, 08:18 PM
That sucks, HF. Is power on in your town?

When it's happened to me I turn on a flashlight and read or sleep. If the city's still awake, I go out and about.

HighFunctioning
11-13-05, 08:21 PM
Yes, the power is out in my town. It's pretty windy here right now. I'm typing this on my laptop, with my cable modem and switch being powered by a UPS.

speedo
11-13-05, 08:46 PM
I have a transistor radio that I can run on my ups for days. I also have some white led lamps that can make light for many hours on my UPS.

I have two 1KVA UPS here...

ME :D

What do you do when the power fails? The power is out at my apartment right now, and I'm afraid that I'm going to be in the dark for a while...

Andrew
11-13-05, 10:01 PM
When power goes out, I daisy-chain 3 UPSs together

william tell
11-13-05, 11:10 PM
you can try a poor mans backup generater ,but you must live in a house or at least have a balconey ,take any gas powered generator and back feed your electric panel ,shuting off the main before you start up the motor -the bigger the generator the more circuits you can leave on ,but at least you can run the refrig. and some heat if nessasary

Gil R
11-15-05, 08:39 AM
I just call the power company when the power goes out because

A. There is nothing i can do about it because i dont have a UPS

2. There may be a pole down in the neighborhood

D. they need to know