On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:11:22PM -0600, Fred James wrote: > OT: FiOS BBU auxiliary power > > We lost electrical power for four days in ours due to the recent snow > Using FiOS for phone means that when the Battery Backup Unit (BBU) > battery runs down (7-8 hours) there is no more phone. > > We have the CPL28U12 BBU (that is an APC number as well - same unit) > which supposedly can accept an auxiliary power supply, but I am having > difficulty identifying one and the capabilities of same. > > So far all Verizon has been able to say is they don't think the aux port > is active?
On our FIOS power supply, there is a jack for a barrel connector that says "Auxilliary power 12V DC" coming off the BBU. I'm guessing that could be connected to a different "12V" source, a car battery perhaps. The barrel connector is small (4mm WAG???) and I don't have a connector to check that with. There is a discussion and further pointers here: http://www.payne.org/index.php/Verizon_FiOS Apparently, there is an auxiliary unit that extends lifetime, but not by much. Personally, I want to construct a BBU that keeps both phone and internet going indefinitely. Probably plugging the whole thing into a beefy UPS system, perhaps bypassing the unit with the wimpy little gel cell. Off the same UPS, I would like to be able to charge the laptops, and keep the routers going if the power goes out for a few days. I'm guessing 150 watts. I expect that would require a few deep discharge marine batteries, an inverter, and my generator (with a 12V output!) to top them off every day or so. The problem is, the more batteries I have around, the more maintenance needed to tend to them. To bring this on topic, perhaps there are some open source apps that help maintain batteries. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
