Power is out here... [message #77026] |
Thu, 14 December 2006 02:30 |
Kim
Messages: 1246 Registered: October 2005
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That UPS seems to work. Thanks guys...
....now the power company is racing the UPS... will they get it back up
or will we go offline? ;o)
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Re: Power is out here... [message #77074 is a reply to message #77060] |
Fri, 15 December 2006 09:09 |
Neil
Messages: 1645 Registered: April 2006
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Ahh, you mean kind of a rodent-powerred perpetual motion machine?
lol
"DJ" <nowayjose@dude.net> wrote:
>I've been thinking of a workaround that will create a situation where in
>some of the current from the UPS is tapped and sent to electrodes which
are
>sent to 600 hampster cages, wherein upon charging the floors of these cages,
>they must hop up on the wheel and start furiously running. These wheels
>will, in turn power small resistors that will reduce the current in the
cage
>the faster they run so the faster they run, the more comfortable they are
>and the wheels will in turn 600 small power generators which will chagre
12v
>backup batteries which can supplement the power of the UPS, effectively
>keeping the NG up until there are 600 exhausted and pissed off hampsters.
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>;O)
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>"Kim" <hiddensounds@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45826a92$1@linux...
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>> "Aaron Allen" <know-spam@not_here.dude> wrote:
>>>Awesome man. Keep up the good work
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>> Hey really, I just sat here in the dark for a bit surfing the net (which
>> I wouldn't have had without that UPS!)...
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>> It's the donators that deserve the credit. :o)
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>> In any case we didn't go offline, so it's all good. Great in fact! :o)
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>> Cheers,
>> Kim.
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Re: Power is out here... [message #77092 is a reply to message #77060] |
Fri, 15 December 2006 15:04 |
Kim
Messages: 1246 Registered: October 2005
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What, you mean there's another kind of UPS? That's all you can get down here
in Australia.
I could only afford the guinea-pig-400 though (we call hamsters guinea pigs
down here... don't ask I don't know...) but I'm told those 400 little critters
can run for quite a while.
Had I realised you could get UPS's without guinea pigs in them I would have
shopped around a little more. I mean these guys certainly do their work,
but cleaning out the cage every day is a real pain...
Cheers,
Kim.
"DJ" <nowayjose@dude.net> wrote:
>I've been thinking of a workaround that will create a situation where in
>some of the current from the UPS is tapped and sent to electrodes which
are
>sent to 600 hampster cages, wherein upon charging the floors of these cages,
>they must hop up on the wheel and start furiously running. These wheels
>will, in turn power small resistors that will reduce the current in the
cage
>the faster they run so the faster they run, the more comfortable they are
>and the wheels will in turn 600 small power generators which will chagre
12v
>backup batteries which can supplement the power of the UPS, effectively
>keeping the NG up until there are 600 exhausted and pissed off hampsters.
>
>;O)
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>"Kim" <hiddensounds@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45826a92$1@linux...
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>> "Aaron Allen" <know-spam@not_here.dude> wrote:
>>>Awesome man. Keep up the good work
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>> Hey really, I just sat here in the dark for a bit surfing the net (which
>> I wouldn't have had without that UPS!)...
>>
>> It's the donators that deserve the credit. :o)
>>
>> In any case we didn't go offline, so it's all good. Great in fact! :o)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kim.
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