I've seen clocks with 9V back-ups, but those seem to have disappeared
from the market. They would last a long time, even during an extended
power outage. Wouldn't keep the display on, but would keep the clock on
time so you didn't have to reset when the power did return.
Don't see those anymore. Bummer. UPS to the rescue.
joe salerno
On 4/25/2012 4:33 AM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> I have a small BackUPS 650 with the tower and monitor of my main PC
> plugged into it.
>
> The main reason for it is the electricity here quite often has "blip
> outs" that last just long enough to cause a computer to shut down and
> all the digital clocks* to blink 12:00.
>
> Can barely notice the drop in a slight flicker in lights. Of course a
> "blip out" is nearly always guaranteed to happen in the middle of a
> render or conversion of a long video.
>
> I have a larger BackUPS with monitoring port I should use on Megatower
> 2000 but I haven't gotten a round tuit yet.
>
> *Whatever happened to battery backups, or even a capacitor holding
> enough charge to power a clock for one or two seconds? I used to have a
> Betamax VCR made by NEC with a feature no other VCR ever had, except for
> other NEC Betas. A built in NiCd backup battery for the clock and timer.
> Imagine that, the most "duh, that's obvious" feature there could ever be
> but only NEC put it in. The V70 also had about 40 jacks, meters, knobs,
> dials and sliders encrusting the front and back - but not a single Sony
> manufactured component. (Possibly the only Betamax licensee to not take
> the bargain license option of buying major parts from Sony.)
>
>
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Joe Salerno
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