From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 21 8:29: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ra.upan.org (ra.upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C51B37B503 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:29:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Received: from ocsinternet.com (localhost.upan.org [127.0.0.1]) by ra.upan.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1LGUST26064; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:30:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Message-ID: <3A93ED24.B2BA7AFF@ocsinternet.com> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:30:28 -0500 From: Mikel King Organization: OCS Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bv@wjv.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Redundancy... final(?) summary References: <20010221105721.C80831@wjv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Also check out Lister they make some really low maintenance gensets, including aircooled gensets. http://www.lister-petter.co.uk/Home_Page.htm cheers, Mikel Bill Vermillion wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:48:00AM -0500, Jim Sander thus spoke: > > > much ado about fuel-cell technology > > > It seems that my question has been answered with a silent > > "no." Nobody seems to have any real experience with commercially > > available fuel-cell technology products, at least in a format > > that is appropriate for my situation. A 125KW system is a bit > > much for a handful of servers! :) I guess this is simply wanting > > what doesn't (yet) exist- in another year perhaps things will be > > different. > > Off of fuel-cell for a moment - as part of this thread was > concerned with generator backup. > > A site to check is www.onan.com Onan has been in > power-generation forever - so it seems. They were in use > in broadcast - two careers ago for me - and had been around forever > when I came across them. Generation available from 2000 watts > to 2 million watts, in various fueling environments, gas, LP and > diesel. > > At one time - the BEST UPS had systems paired with Onan generators > for a complete package. Not cheap but rugged and reliable. > > Bill > -- > Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message