From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 22:35: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D971937B403 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:35:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 81FE718DC; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7074718DB; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:35:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: UPS for freebsd server In-Reply-To: <000d01c10b5c$09638b60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > that usually happens after 2 years of continuous service. It doesen't appear > to me that there's much difference in the electronics and that > most computer power supplies have large enough capacitors in them to > survive a 200 millisecond power loss without rebooting, plenty of time for Two years is about right... we use to replace the batteries about every 18-24 months, or just out right replaced the UPS.... :) Those big APC units are nice in that regards, hot swappable batteries. :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message