[Soekris] Lightweight UPS

[william estrada]

Bill,

   The simplest power system for a 4801 is a battery bank.  Connect up has many
gel cells as you have and connect them to a trickle charger.  I have been
running my 4801 from batteries for more than 3 years with no power problems.
I have had other problem like a drive going bad.

   I am very impressed with the service of my 4801.  Pain in the ass to install
the OS, FC5.  The PXE install took 3 hours.  The serial console install is not
very well supported but it did work.

-- 
William Estrada
MrUmunhum at popdial.com
Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ( 64.124.13.3 )

> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:14:37 +0200
> From: Bill Maas <bill at stsx.org>
> Subject: [Soekris] Lightweight UPS
> To: "soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com" <soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> here's a question that's been in my mind for a while now: is there some
> widely available toy or other mass-produced item that happens to have an
> excellent loader and batteries which can easily be ripped out and could
> serve as a lightweight UPS for my 2 Soekris boxes? Must be able to feed
> while loading of course. All available UPS systems seem to be in the kW
> range. One of the reasons why I run these Soekris boxes is their 3-10 W
> power consumption, so kW's are way out of range, as are the prices of
> these things. [Links to] loader/feeder circuit diagrams also welcome.
> 
> 
> Bill