Re: home router battery backup

[Andy Ringsmuth <andy () andyring com>]

> On Jan 13, 2022, at 9:22 AM, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
>
> > The power company said the rotating outages would be 30-45 minutes, which I do have UPS capacity to handle. But the 
> > rotating outage went close to 2 hours, exhausting my UPS capacity and getting to the point where I was more 
> > concerned about the temperature in the building.
>
> Having had extensive experience with load shedding growing up this side of the world (sadly), the outage period 
> announced by the power company may or may not include the time required to re-energize the affected areas.
>
> So when they say 30 - 45 minutes, you should ask them if that includes or excludes the time allowance for 
> re-energizing.

The utility had never experienced that before either. The entire city only had a couple hours notice that this would be 
happening.

Oh well. We got through it.



-Andy