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.
>>>
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