Long-term (hours+) solution for power outage: PBX, lights, and computers

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Thu Aug 31 15:58:01 EDT 2006


A client suffered a five-hour downtime recently, and has been looking  
for a reasonably priced solution. He's working out of leased office  
space, and a generator or major structural changes are unreasonable.  
He happened upon:

http://www.sentrypowertechnology.com/

And they offer 6 KW and 12 KW units.

The client would like to keep a half-dozen computers, LCD screens and  
a laser printer or two running for a 4- to 6-hour period. Anyone have  
experience with a solution that would work? Things to look out for?  
For example, each computer has its own small APC UPS, so there would  
be two sources of battery power in series. It's possible the  
generated AC would not be stable enough in voltage or frequency to  
keep the UPSes from tripping on and off. I know this is a problem  
with the smaller, less-regulated generator units.

Is there a good solution for a small office? Of should he be looking  
for a 10K VA UPS?

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com





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