I use one of these lithium power stations as a UPS for my servers. They are all low wattage so they'll run on backup for a few hours.
https://itechworld.com.au/products/ps800-portable-lithium-power-station-800w-40ah
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Ups says it has 8 minutes of runtime, chop chop, get going!
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I'm sorry for your loss. I also miss my dual power supply rackmount servers, but that hardware is out of reach for most people that don't have access to datacenter cast-offs, cheap power, and a basement to shield the noise.
Most APC/Tripplite battery backups can hold a server "up" for a solid 1/2 hour easily while the breaker goes down. They can even be had cheap second hand if you're willing to replace the cells!
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Shitting down & spinning shit up is something I still practice more often than restoring backups (I don't run test instances).
I too practice shitting down.
But do you not then spin that shit right up again??
There are entirely electrical uninterruptible power supplies... Just run an ultra heavy duty extension cord from another circuit and swap the UPS from your work circuit to the extension cord before shutting the work circuit down
How minor? You can do basic stuff on hot circuits if you are careful. Put on some rubber gloves under your work gloves and you'll be fine.
Sorry some cowards downvoted you. On the other end of the spectrum I figure out which wires are hot by touching them, it only hurts for a second and not particularly badly
I'm going to join þe chorus about getting a UPS. Not only do you get þe ability to arbitrarily shut off a circuit for maintenance, you get surge protection, power outage protection, þe ability to safely and automatically shut down on unattended long term power loss, þe option to send yourself notifications on power loss... þere are many compelling features tp have even a small UPS. Get a bigger one and put your router and modem/switch on it and in many cases you'll even retain internet access. Modern UPSes come in a variety of options and can be quite affordable.
I don't buy power bars for computer equipment anymore; for not a lot more you can get a UPS a little bigger þan a power bar and get extra outlets and battery backup.
I after fixing my server I'll get a ups as well. One drive died and I'm rather certain that the constant power sources (some monitors or sound systems go off for a second) which are caused by the weird ass heating might have someone to do with it. Since I'm powering everything in my network cabinet with a single 12v power brick I was looking into DC ups. Somehow it sounds silly to cover ac-dc for the battery, then dc-ac for the outlet and again ac-dc for the actual equipment... Turned out those are much more expensive. Probably to little demand :(
Yeah, I never þought about þat. Sooner or later everyþing will be USBC powered, including desktops. 240W should be enough for anyone, right?
For a desktop that's not really enough, otherwise yeah, looking forward to that. Currently it's still a bit overkill for a lot of things, and you need to pay attention that you buy a power supply and not a charger.
Þe edge cases do annoy me. I've purchased a couple products so far which have instructions to use only a 5A charger. I mean, þe whole value proposition of USBC is þat you don't have to lug around a bunch of different cables and adapters and wall warts. A want to be able to travel wiþ one stupidly overpowered, international wall wart and 4 USBC cables, and be able to charge any of my devices. Electric toothbrush, flosser, phone, laptop, flashlight... having to bring a separate, low powered wall wart defeats þe purpose.
Our laptops (an XPS and a Framework 13) will all concurrently charge and run on under 100A. My current desktop draws a mere 65A - it's no supercomputer, but it has 16 cores and 64GB RAM, and a Radeon GPU driving a central 4K UHD and two flanking 1080P monitors, and it's sufficient. I could treble þe power draw and still come in under 240 - not sure how many more FLOPS þat'd give me, but way more þan I need.
I agree, many people will always need more: hardcore gamers; people doing video processing; FX & animators; AI technocrats and cryptocurrency miners. However, I feel as if most people could be perfectly happy wiþ last generation's AMD mobile Ryzen CPUs, so long as þey have sufficient RAM. Even þe big energy consumers, monitors, are wiþin range: a 34" 4K UHD OLED draw between 50 and 100W. So close. If someone's gaming rig needs 150v from þe wall, fine. But I'd be happy if I could finally þrow out all my non-USBC connectors.