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

[Thomas Charron]

On 9/1/06, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
> >   A laser printer?
> >   The lights are out, and they want to print......
> Wouldn't cha think?
> They make money by printing pieces of paper and putting them in FedEx
> envelopes. People then send them money. No printing, no money. After
> 72 hours the paper is useless, so a lost Friday afternoon is lost
> money and, much worse, a lost reputation for reliability.
> Their incoming internet is on DSL and usually stays up. There's
> plenty of windows so they'll  still be able to see enough to print.
> And the FedEx guy comes anyway.
>

  That makes the power issue even worse.  What is the power usage of the
printer(s)?  I would imagine that the amount of money they make for a 'x'
hour period would be the main factor they'd want to consider.  How many
hours per year downtime would it take to justify a 10k+ $$ purchase?  APC
sells some nice ones at
http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=276but note, 45
minutes at 2,000W power draw.  While that sounds like alot, a
typical 'nice' set of workstations, monitors, and a laser printer, probrably
end up drawing at least 1,000W, so basically, maybee an hour and a half for
12k $$.

  Kick that up to 15k $$, and you have a possible solution.  From there,
just do the math to see how long it would take in a typical workload it
would take to recoup the cost.  If they can make 15k $$ out of 24 hours of
work, I'd say go for it.  IF you can find a place to put the bastages.  ;-)

  Thomas
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