Tony T;532863 Wrote: > Then you are lucky never to have a power outage at the time you needed > the alarm to sound. > Many radios have a 9v back-up battery for such an occasion, > unfortunately, the SB Radio does not.
Power outages are not a real issue. My old Sony alarm clock (dream machine) which I had for 15 years or more wouldn't work in a power failure either. In fact, it simply blink 12:00 after a power failure. I don't expect this radio to work if there is NO power at the set time to go off. But better than my old Sony clock radio -- if there is a power failure in the night AND the power returns during the night, the alarm on the squeezebox radio WILL go off and the clock will be at the correct time. Why? Because my computer is set to automatically reboot when the powre goes back on -- AND squeezebox server is set to automatically start. So amazingly better than a traditional clock radio that required power AND had to be manually reset after a power failure, the squeezebox radio is infinitely better if you know what you are doing. I remember only once or twice in perhaps 25 years where the power was out in my location in the morning. Usually it goes out during the later afternoon early evening (thunderstorms) and comes back on quickly. So the power outage argument is a total red herring (unless you live in a 3rd world country). -- eap ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eap's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77119 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
