I use a 750 VA UPS. About $80 from Amazon. I live in a windy place, with above ground power lines. Power outages are inevitable, despite being located only 15 miles from a massive hydroelectric dam.
A UPS is essential for reliability. On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:58 PM Kevin Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > > Out of curiosity, what are you running for backup power? Surely you’re > power has flickered enough to almost two years to trigger a reboot. > > On Jul 4, 2020, at 5:02 PM, Tom Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A quality SD card makes all the difference. I've been running an instance > <http://www.threefools.org/weewx/status/index.html> of weewx since 2014 > on a SanDisk Extreme Plus without any problems. Uptime is currently 530 > days! > > -tk > > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 4:16 PM John Pierce <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I did move my /var/log to a ramdisk. since the rpi isn't doing >> anythng but running weewx, I don't expect there is much other writing to it. >> >> oh, and I got a high write endurance microSD card, too, after killing my >> first one. >> >> thats something I hate about SD cards and USB Sticks, they don't have any >> diagnostics ala smartctl, so there's no way of knowing how much write >> endurance they have left. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 4:01 PM galfert <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It isn't the minute by minute update that kills the SD card, rather the >>> OS that is hammering away at the SD card in a much worse way than the >>> minute by minute update. Of course the minute by minute update doesn't help >>> but that part is minor compared to what the OS is doing. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/8Ym49pN2Gq8/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e39a1737-f92f-4390-b662-bba901df5700o%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/e39a1737-f92f-4390-b662-bba901df5700o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> -john r pierce >> recycling used bits in santa cruz >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAJnkzXKJPcxaDVBBD_2xWjA5o5w04jQi9HeywyuX0K8aKgoSow%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAJnkzXKJPcxaDVBBD_2xWjA5o5w04jQi9HeywyuX0K8aKgoSow%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEDoY55y36d3KJLYc1XXuw2YOZh5dvMu%3Dzud%3DJRNGD3cag%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEDoY55y36d3KJLYc1XXuw2YOZh5dvMu%3Dzud%3DJRNGD3cag%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/E7ACF261-CC19-4D8D-9C2B-CB44BCADA877%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/E7ACF261-CC19-4D8D-9C2B-CB44BCADA877%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEDMBHqTaq2GKEXD8NiiWnf8ShiEDyebtXuPYaerPWsfgA%40mail.gmail.com.
