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Originally Posted by rowan
PK, do you have any pics of your setup? I have some fairly important equipment here which is UPS'd, but that's mainly just so every server has time (hopefully) to properly flush everything to disk and then shut down gracefully.
Would be cool, and quite expensive I'm sure, to be the only house with just about everything electric still working  |
Don't have any pics. I'll see if I can take some..
It's this generator..
http://www.kohlerpower.com/residenti...&prodnum=52861
with the cover off because it's located in about an 8 x 15 shed next to my garage.
Then there's two electrical panels added to my garage. A transfer switch, a main, and the subpanel (which the generator runs when it's on). There had to be a gas line run from where it comes into my house at the meter to the generator and then wiring run from the generator to the panels. Didn't need a concrete pad poured because the shed is on concrete.
Altogether it was just over 30K. I've always had an APC SmartUPS for my home office, but now it's just to cover until the generator kicks in 15 seconds after power goes out.