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Hah......I'll only be down about a month...plus I still have one rig at work that puts out a measly 6K PD....so you better mow quickly...sweet....thanks for letting me mow you in the mean time
Hah......I'll only be down about a month...plus I still have one rig at work that puts out a measly 6K PD....so you better mow quickly...
Its just too damn hot in my room.....the AC never shuts off..
I'm right with you there. It has been so bad that it is even hot in my basement unless we keep the AC running 24/7. The $300 power bill hurts my "buy new toys" fund quite a bit.
yeah.. my 2 BTC rigs melted a power strip yesterday..
I'm right with you there. It has been so bad that it is even hot in my basement unless we keep the AC running 24/7. The $300 power bill hurts my "buy new toys" fund quite a bit.
I suppose it could be worse as a buddy of mine with a 5 bedroom McMansion just got her electric bill of $700 for last month. That house has like 3 central air compressor units.
Listen if you melted a power strip then I suspect it was seriously overloaded. Be careful and check out the amperage your using. Most strips are rated at about 15a. Please be careful we don't need to read about any fires.
Yeah.. it was a 15.. was also an old crappy Radioshack one..
Have upped it to a line fused @25 with a much better surge protector this time around.
It handled 15 for a few weeks, but I it must been hovering that line for a while.. All good now. but affixed smoke detector next to case just in case.
Ouch. Ouch and double Ouch. I only thought that my power bill was high.
Puff the Magic Smoke Detector. You could market that...get Monster to sell it for $79.99 a piece.
Personally I don't care much for surge protectors. Love the idea of a smoke detector next to the rig though.
In my farm I run all machines off a large UPS. It constantly monitors the line voltage and kicks in any time the V goes out of spec. Hence my machines NEVER see a voltage spike or brown out. Speaking of browns, you know of course that a surge protector doesn't do a thing to help low voltage.
You would be surprised how many times a week my UPS kicks in cause the voltage from the power company falls out of spec... kind of scary actually.
Course in 10 years now of running 24/7 I haven't lost a machine. I'm just sayin...
Yah well I have never replaced the batteries. I haven't tested them lately and am sure they are very limited now but I think they would cost me around $300 to replace them all. Since I am basically trying to filter the voltage more than use them as uninteruptable that is ok with me for the moment. One UPS for instance would only hold the systems up for 5 minutes or so. The other used to hold them for 55 minutes, even running several systems off of it. In any case when I get richer I will buy some new batteries. In the meantime they are basically a filter.
Well they seem to filter just fine so far. I think as long as they don't short they should be able to hold a minimal charge. Besides on the filter side it may not take to much juice from the batteries unless it is a full brown. Meanwhile the batteries seem to keep up no problem.
Haven't heard of rebuilding batteries although I know it is possible. Never thought about that end of the spectrum. Hopefully Kendrak will pop up like you said.
The batteries in my UPS are 8 - 6v ones. I forget how much they cost but it wasn't cheap although I did search around the internet a bit for new ones.
sweet....thanks for letting me mow you in the mean time