Folding Insurance

[RagingSamster]

I love my job! One of my customers was cleaning out his office and asked me if I wanted a UPS, I thought it was going to be one of those power strips with maybe a small shutdown system, but NO it was a Compaq T1500!

At work I tested it for a half hour against a dell with a 17" monitor and the battery indicator barely budged (the top LED of four would go out, but then come back on until around 25 minutes into it)

Took it home, plugged my Cablemodem, VOIP box, Router, PC and monitor.
I'm wondering if the cable modem will be able to talk back to Comcast or if there's some sort of concentrator near my house that if power goes down will I still be connected?

If not I'm thinking about hooking it up to my gas furnace for winter - the fan shouldn't really tax it that much.

 

[OSUguy98]

sweet! always good to have a UPS or 12... gas furnace?? why??? just buy more boxen


Keep on Folding!!

 

[MrValentine]

The draw from that fan would surprise you. The start up amprage for it could very well be read as a short by the UPS and it might shut down. But you won't know till you try

My cable stays up when the power is down. Normally the cable company will have their own UPS systems at nodes that use power.

 

[rogue_jedi]

My cable stays up when the power is down. Normally the cable company will have their own UPS systems at nodes that use power.

it's the same way with phone companies. they don't wanna have to restart all their stuff every time the power goes out (now there's an idea... could anyone convince, say, BGE to fold for team 33?)

nice find, though... just make sure to keep the monitors off of it.