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

[Bill McGonigle]

On Aug 31, 2006, at 15:57, Ted Roche wrote:

> He's working out of leased office space, and a generator or major 
> structural changes are unreasonable.

Can you expand on this?  Is it because of the typical permanent 
installation of a generator which they see as a sunk cost?  Or is the 
landlord unwilling to allow them to install one?  Because a generator 
is what they need,
  and the "I need to get to San Francisco for $450 in five hours, but a 
commercial airliner is unreasonable" argument needs some support.

I've worked with battery units similar to the link you sent - for the 
kind of runtime you need and the load you want, a generator is much 
much cheaper.  You're probably looking at a $40K battery unit if the 
manufacturer is a name brand and isn't lying about the actual runtime 
and you need another $3-5K worth of electrician work to install it, if 
you're not going to be running extension cords all over the office.

Either that or a nuclear battery like that town in Alaska is using, but 
then they'd need a nuclear engineer on their team - hey, wait...

-Bill

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