[Robotgroup] An interesting time

[brooksdesign]

Way cool Tami,
  how much did the battery pack cost you? Do you want to try adding wind power to your system? If I had mine up and running I could be making a fortune selling the power with the wind being unrelenting of late.
-brooks 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tami <kd5rju at wb5aoh.dyndns.org>
>Sent: Jun 8, 2008 6:08 PM
>To: robotgroup at puremagic.com
>Subject: [Robotgroup] An interesting time
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>Last Sunday, (1 Jun 2008) in the late afternoon we lost grid power in parts of
>the neighborhood.  It took AE about 3 hours to get around to fixing it.
>Meanwhile I got to evaluate my backup power - which continued seamlessly on
>all the emergency circuits.
>
>Styx, the IBM thinkpad Jacob Brown loaned to me over 6 years ago was still
>running fine on its (own LiON) battery power when I shut it down about an hour
>into the outage!  I'm impressed!
>
>I ran on sunlight for most of the time.  I took a movie of the the
>oscilloscope displaying the nice, smooth sine wave of the backup power.
>
>The refrigerator, freezer and ham radios worked continuously without so much
>as a hiccup when the grid died and when it came back on-line.  Full power was
>restored shortly after 7:30 PM.  My 2.5 year old batteries did well, (we ran
>mostly on solar, but the batteries started taking over before the line was
>fixed).  They were all still almost fully charged at the end of the event.
>
>It was pleasently quiet outside in the nice south breeze without the buzz of
>AC compressors.  Not a bad experience at all.
>
>Getting a battery backed up system was one of the best decisions I ever made.
>Had this been a days- or weeks-long event, my (Outback) system has the option
>of plugging in a generator to supplement the solar power.  If that happens,
>I'll RTFM.  
>
>.Tami
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>I'm not a robot, but I played one on TV.
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