On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:21:33 -0600, william dryden wrote:

"Miaowara Tomokato" <miaowara.tomokato@mount.samurai> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.03.06.22.56.23.665525@little.psycho.kittens...

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:59:58 +0000, Martin 53N 1W wrote:

150 dollars at Best Buy?  If I had money I could buy one.

For their setup, they need something much more substantial than that

to

stay up for any length of time through a mains power failure.

They run something more than just a 200W PC...

The 200 watt version is about 60 dollars.  2 of those, with the small
batteries removed, and deep cycle marine batteries wired in will run 4
500 watt PC's for quite some time.

It might if you remove the covers, re-heat sink the power transistors in
the inverter and add a cooling fan.  Been there, tried that, fried the
inverter and all I did was add the battery to extend the run time on an
otherwise acceptable UPS.

I actually added a second power bank when I did it.  I had a few "extras"
lying around.