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philo
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I have never seen anything like them.

Thanks for sharing, Philo.

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David B.

It was one ofthe largest installation we ever sold. Something like $1,000,000.

There is another similar sized battery bank on the other side of the room. Since a lot of the batteries were in the trucks, that photo represents 1/4th of the batteries at that location

It was a grocery distribution center that moved into a new facility which is now owned by Kroger.

I gave that customer good honest service for many years and they rewarded us with the purchase.

My reward was that I kept my job.

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philo

I have a Best on my network equipment and phone - but not a Ferro. Those Ferros were pretty innefficient unless you were using them as a space heater ---.Best Power had a great system called the UBS - ever see one of those in opperation??

Best Power was swallowed up by Eaton, who also swallowed up Exide, into the "powerware" brand. WAY better stuff than APC (A Piece of Crap)

I have 3 Powerware Prestige units - one of them an EXT. At the office where I spent the last 16 or more years of mornings we have 4 of the newer Powerware dual conversions - one of them an EXT with the big battery pack. The TV boxes are on simple SOLA boxes and my wife's is an "interactive" Powerware. I find the APC Back-Ups units pretty much useless - - We have about

20 of them still in use at the factory where I spend 2 afternoons a week - battery life is about a year, no matter what brand battery we use (due in large part to heat or overcharging - the batteries are usually swollen or split when removed)

I have not had a split battery in any of the Powerware units so far - and the oldest ones are pushing hard at 23 years old now (new batteries, of course) 2 are 1000kva and one is 650. The line interactive is a 600, as is the old Best. The solas are S2K industrial units - I think they are 450s.

We have had 2 longer than 24 hours since we moved in here 36 years ago. One was 3 days. We have had several longer than 2 hours - and if those are in the winter having power for the furnace makes life a lot more bearable and prevents frozen pipes. I can run the Genny on gasoline or propane at full rated power - on Gasoline 'till I run out of gasoline, on propane untill I run all 3 tanks dry - then on Natural Gass at about 70% rated output virtually for ever on Natural Gas. I might get around to running a bigger gas line which should allow full output on NG as well.

Ice storms are the biggest threat here, followed by Tornados or massive grid failure - which caused the "big one" in 2003.(overheated transmission lines in Ohio, due to extreme power requirements due to prolonged high temperatures, made worse by a poer plant failure etc etc). The "Storm of '98" was the other biggie - and that was in January. A lot of houses had split pipes - and a lot of others didn't only because homeowners drained the pipes before they froze - - or left water taps running.

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clare

BIG business! :-)

Amazing.

You are the kind of guy that Dustin *should* have had as a dad!

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David B.

dual conversion.

The company I worked for distributed Best (before we were absorbed by Yuasa-Exide and later Enersys-Delaware) They were manufactured here in Wisconsin and I even went to school at the factory. To the best of my knowledge they only had Ferro transformers. That was back around 1988 or so.

The one I have is physically huge and it's only 850 VA (I think)

Twice the size of a 1400 VA using I have on my shop.

The Ferro transformers are maybe 85% efficient . Just remembered however that I took the one I had out of service as under a large inrush load, the thing actually dropped out...(even though in my previous post I mentioned that a Ferro would not drop out I guess that was "in theory" only.)

BTW: With regard to charging, the Best UPS used hysteresis loop techniquie. It worked very well and would often confuse people used to "float" charging.

Please let me know about UBS I never heard of it.

The 24 hour drop-out took place after a fire. It was water damage from underground seepage.

BTW: I wrote a m=nice letter to Eagle Picher last year, in my shop I have a 6v battery I use on my in-shop continuity test butter...the battery was manufactured in 1992 and still has some capacity!

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philo

LOL.

I just got done repairing a machine for a 28 year old woman who is a film maker. She said none of her tech friends could repair her machine and she was right in the middle of a project.

It had a quad core CPU @ 3ghz and 32gigs of RAM plus two SSD drives.

The video card, I don't know what it was but it had two, 8 pin power wires feeding it.

She had been using it for almost two years and recently put in the better video card and a better PSU...soon after that the problem began and the person who upgraded the thing for her was a bit stumped.

Ad it turned out the new PSU had such a massive set of cables, that they were pressing on the end RAM stick and the machine would sometimes get RAM errors or else HD errors due to the SATA connector at the HD having a bit of pressure on it.

It was not immediately obvious but I eventually re-mounted the hard-drive carriage so that there was no chance of the cables would be pressing on anything.

Though I thought this was going to be any easy job and told her I'd fix it free, it took a bit more time that I expected.

She told me she would refer all her paying friends to me however.

While I was working on the machine I entertained her with stories about the punch card days, and how the consultant at my office had started at Oscar Meyer in 1948 and he would transfer data from one office to the next using a small pickup truck full of punch cards!

I don't know if she could comprehend :)

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philo

Great story! :-)

Great marketing, Philo! 10/10

Haha! ;-) Send her this link ...

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David B.

Oh ya, yo have to make sure you have the right drivers. I only sell Intel chipsets, so it is the Intel one I am concerned about.

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T

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Thank you, I will send that to her right now!

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philo

And so it goes. Waste of good talent. Get the job done, out the door you go. :(

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Diesel

I think I would have checked into emulation before spending a dime on an actual Mac. I wouldn't even take 'free' ones.

Not use it online? Do you think hacking is like what you see in the movies or something?

Upgrade as in goto Windows 10, or?

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Diesel

30 was average depending on how busy we were at one particular shop. That doesn't include onsite service calls, custom boxes we built and sold in house, etc. We had KVM switches so we could tie upto 10 into the same mouse/keyboard and screen; reducing wasted space. The space could then be used for more computers. The boss was about the money, so, the more we worked on at once, the more money he could make...

I've done my share of board level repairs too. Everything from providing a new ground plane for a DIN5 keyboard connector to cap replacement, eeprom replacement, burned out diodes, etc. There's just no money in that anymore, unless the machine is something really special and you can't just replace the hardware and move on.

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Diesel

:) I'm an Intel person myself. Mind, you, I do have a few AMD boxes.. but, I prefer Intel. I can torture them more. [g]

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Diesel

It depends on which APC you have. Some did outright, suck.

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Diesel

Oh.. You're missing out. If you think gaming rigs are the bees knees, you need to see a digital coin miner with five! video cards on her. [g] Of course, you would notice the dent in your power bill. They typically run multiple power supplies in the 1+kilowatt range.

I respect that. I had to run heat to get serious distance with some CB rigs I had. The HAM rigs could travel the world on far less wattage.

Hell, the machine I use for a file server here could do that without breaking a sweat, under a Windows VM no less. [g] Since it's native Linux. heh.

I play asteroids on occasion on this machine, and various nintendo games on some of my linux laptops; via emulation. I've got every single ROM ever released world wide for Atari, Nintendo and super Nintendo, although.. I wasn't really a big fan of the Super Nintendo. Never actually owned one of those. Didn't particularly care for the Sega systems either.

As I said, you don't have the experience I do. I've been employed as an actual 'tech' since I was a teenager. I *never* left the field. Didn't take a long vacation from IT as you did. My 'real' job is that of a computer technician. It has been for a long long time. I've added another skillset though. That of electrician. I find they are very complimentary skillsets. Not only can I wire your home/business, I can provide your networking equipment, your computers, etc, too. Custom software needed? I can write it for you, in house. I wouldn't mind living long enough to become a master electrician, but, that requires so many more years of doing it. heh. I don't think I've got that much available time.

I work my ass off, if you haven't already noticed. It's nothing for me to pull 80+ hours a week. Infact, I hope to die on my feet, doing what I love, rather than die in my sleep or something. I'm known as a workaholic. I'll have plenty of time for sleep, when I'm dead. I've been this way since I was a kid though. My parents didn't instill it in me, I just didn't like to sleep much. I wanted to learn how things worked, all the damn time. And thought if I was sleeping, I was missing out.. So...

The computer repair business isn't what it used to be. :( Electricians OTH, well, that's a dependable source of income. You can't 'outsource' that or make it 'disposable'

Well, thanks to the area in which I chose to build, the power grid isn't the most reliable...And, I've gotta have a stable power source, at all times.

We think alike in some cases. :)

I can't say as it rings a bell. I might. I'll have to check it out via a search engine. Did you ever get to play with anything by Novell?

When I was in highschool, I converted the schools token ring configuration to cat5. We had 386 boxes mostly that didn't actually have a hard disk present. They booted from their network cards via the Novell server. It provided everything from boot code to Windows 3.11 for workgroups. I really liked how it could support hundreds of machines from a single dedicated machine.

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Diesel

The ones I actually have in service are 24 volt based. I don't have them tied via data connection to any of the computers though

I just leave them plugged in and that's it. If the house loses power for more for more than a few minutes, one of the generators will kick on anyhow; so, I shouldn't have to worry about the UPS actually running down far enough to go offline on me.

My APC SmartUPS 700 is supposedly good for about 45 minutes, depending on load. It's got brand new batteries in it too. I got them for $11 a piece at walmart of all places! Heh. It's tied into the file server for the LAN and this particular workstation. another UPS provides filtered power for the switch gear, etc. I know many APC models sucked ass, but, this happens to be one that isn't bad. It's reliable. Provides clean, filtered current for my boxes at all times. I like that.

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Diesel

Ahh... Looking further down, you've acquired a windows 10 friendly mainboard. And, you mentioned you couldn't get USB 2 running, but you didn't explain the ports wouldn't run at all, nor did you mention the board was expecting Windows 10 at the time...My mistake for assuming you had USB v1 speed from them. Why did you think that Windows 7 drivers would have been available for everything on the board from the manufacturer? That just doesn't make much sense to me...

Why would you expect any? Windows 7/8.1 are on the way out.

I don't have a problem with that. Writing drivers is a pain in the ass. Why shouldn't he be paid for the work he'll have to do?

You might not actually have to go that far though. It may still be possible to find compatible drivers for Windows 7 and that board... They won't come from asus and they'd be generic in nature, but... It's possible. Have you tried one of the gianormous driver collection packages? I've got two of them. Driverpack and SDI. Credit to Shadow for turning me onto the SDI collection.

I have no problems with that. I do all kinds of 'freebie' stuff too, mostly for friends, family, and co-workers. I'm not out to become filthy rich; I can't take it with me anyhow. Just finished switching a nice HP laptop from 32bit Vista to 64bit Linux Mint KDE 17.3; it flies! And, the owner is very happy with it, too. She's nearly 80 years old and has no trouble using it. So, I think almost! anyone could use that distro, especially if they were already familiar with Windows. I'm not ready to go the 18.x route just yet...I'm still taking a wait and see approach. They've changed a few things around, and, I don't like it. Mostly, the lack of codecs already present with the iso.

Hey! Atleast you have *some idea* what OS might be on the machine. :) I've had people bring me 'Windows' boxes that are actually running some flavor of Linux. ROFL. How they get the two confused, I really don't know. The distro's I've seen don't look THAT MUCH like Windows...But, I haven't seen every distro out there either. so...

Speaking of which, I need to find a shop that might be able to recone an old tube VHF radio I've got. Some little miscreant knocked holes in it and has essentially shredded the speaker at this point...Last time I actually turned it on though, it did run. So, I'm a bit irked to find it in it's present condition. It belonged to my grandmother.

Seriously? Can't you find a museum with a radio collection or something? they might want it. If you're going to toss it, atleast collect all the viable parts first. And, sell those on ebay if you must. Hate to see things goto a landfill if they can be repurposed.

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Diesel

ROFL. I don't think so David...

He hasn't got shit on me as far as experience in the world of I.T. is concerned. Nor the certifications to back it up. :) Where as, I do. I've written software that's older than his experience. *laugh*

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I'm talking about my /home/ workshop not an actual business. I would work on machines before or after I'd go to my real job.

My 'real job' (one of them anyhow) was and still is that of a computer technician, a multiple certifications technician. His, was not.

Looks like your back to square one, stalker. That one isn't my equal either.

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Diesel

It was a steady paycheck for 38 years with good benefits such as a company car or van I could use personally.

What I liked about my job was there were occasional good challenges and I had done enough things right that upper management liked me.

My home office was apoplectic when on occasion I'd go over everyone's heads and go right to the CEO with problems.

Though I was thrilled to retire, I think my bosses were even more thrilled to see me go!

At any rate, I left on good terms and a few years later quit my volunteer work too. Finally doing what I like full time.

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philo

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