I'd rather send them all home for the afternoon if I had a power outage. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Markey Sent: Thursday, 20 April 2006 6:45 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Good UPS
We looked into this quite extensively recently. There is no doubt that a reasonable UPS is the best way to go vis-a-vis generator but only if most of the work stations are laptops with their own batteries (and larger keyboards attached). We have set this up in Middleton (admittedly not a huge practice) and it has already survived a quite prolonged power outage without any real problems. I'd have to check the costs, but the way we've done it was certainly cheaper than a generator. Greg M Horst Herb wrote: > On Wednesday 19 April 2006 22:53, you wrote: > >>Aren't petrol generators cheaper than a battery as big as a fridge?? > > > No. Because you would need one that > 1.) is acceptable noisewise and emissionwise by the neighbourhood > 2.) kicks in automatically > on top of a UPS that at least can bridge a few minutes and conditions your > power > > Yes, my UPS is as big as a small bar fridge and weighs 400 kg, but suitable > generator would be at least as big and much dearer > > >>How many kWh does one get for $4k? > > > about 15 I guess > > >>Laptops are rather useful for riding out blackouts or power cord accidents. > > > Laptops are not made for continuous operation. They ususally don't last long > under the thermal stress, nor do their keyboards usually take well the > 8-hours-a-day punding on 5 days a week every week. > > Horst > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
