: Discussion list for the Winter SWL Fest
Subject: Re: [Swlfest] Emergency Power
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 01:55:33 +
Sorry I didn't make it to the fest. Re emergency power, I have been buying
APC UPS units since 1987. (I was introduced to them through work, installing
them on 50-o
Sorry I didn't make it to the fest.
Re emergency power, I have been buying APC UPS units since 1987. (I was
introduced to them through work, installing them on 50-odd PC computer
installations in all types of state facilities scattered in all counties.)
I've used them on my telephone BBS and PCs o
*Ed, I use the simple poor man's method
of making Faraday cages. A dead
microwave oven is one and the other is a
metal garbage can lined with foam, a
tight lid and metal tape around the
joint when the lid is in place. Both
were hauled into town and a friend who
is cellphone crazy helped me
*Great idea for a topic near and dear to
my heart Eric. I live in a rural area
at the end of a dead end road, at the
end of the powerline and said powerline
is serviced by a REMC. Needless to say,
the power service isn't always stellar.
Longest outage so far has been five and
a half weeks.
I'd really like to see a SWLfest talk next year about emergency
backup AC and DC power, and voltage spike suppression (local and
whole-house.)
Maybe even a segment about how to cheaply shield backup radios and
other electronics from destruction by a coronal mass ejection (CME)
like the Carrin
But be careful.
When talking gas-powered generators.
With the recent power outages here in the Merrimack Valley, a couple in
Methuen suffered CO poisoning – the husband died, wife in critical condition,
cat died, dog survived.
Long story short = couple had two generators running I
