From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 21:21:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E407C1065675 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED928FC27 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:21:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7BLKhpn054401; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:20:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o7BLKgxe054400; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:20:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:20:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <201008112120.o7BLKgxe054400@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ryan.coleman@cwis.biz In-Reply-To: <5304A319-0406-4510-B6B2-8FD609239FF9@cwis.biz> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.4 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:20:58 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: UPS question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ryan.coleman@cwis.biz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:21:02 -0000 Ryan Coleman wrote: > He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on > a 1400VA. That W and VA numbers of the UPS are pretty much irrelevant, because they tell nothing about the capacity of the battery. Those numbers only give an upper limit on the power that the UPS can handle (i.e. you cannot connect devices totalling 800 W to a 500 W UPS, for example). In order to be able to estimate how long the UPS can power wattage, you need to know the capacity of the battery. The capacity is usually given in Ah units (Ampere hours). For example, a battery with 10 Ah capacity can deliver 10 Ampere for 1 hour, or 20 Ampere for 30 minutes, or 30 Ampere for 20 Minutes ... and so on. At a typical battery voltage of 12 V, 30 A would be 360 W. So, theoretically a 10 Ah battery would be able to hold devices that use 360 W for about 20 Minutes. In practice it will be less because no UPS has 100% efficiency. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on your monitor or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on a web site, and you must change them very often.