On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 06:38 -0500, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: ... snip > Kirk, > > Just curious, but how would it boot with a power outage, and > the generator not up and running? For a generator control I'd leave > the machine up and running all the time, plugged into a decent sized > UPS. That way, there's no lag in the boot up time, the UPS would > keep he PC up and running until the generator came on line, and the > PC could still monitor the power. Keep it simple. > > Mark
Having a UPS(s) to bridge the time between mains outage to generator output was part of the plan. I would bridge just the equipment needed. If I can boot the generator controller in a minute or two, it won't need to be on all of the time. I'd like to save energy wherever I can. Thinking a little more, I guess I could use something like a solar inverter as a UPS which would have a fair amount of intelligence built in. Or, I could try to get the Ubuntu/HAL computer to do the UPS and generator function together, in which case it would need to be on all of the time. This is getting more complex. But, ... UPS's are complex due to having to come on-line instantly, which a solar inverter might not be designed to do. It would be nice to have one unit that backed up power to the whole house, but I may be better off having stand alone UPS's on just the critical equipment. I haven't put enough effort into this yet. ----------- Kirk http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
