Re: Crime and Punishment

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

Do you have a VOIP phone?  And, if so, did it work while your solar
battery back-up kicked in?  Or, did you not get a chance to try it while
the power was "out"?

 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 00:32:50 -0800
 >
 > Yesterday there was a huge rainstorm, which sure enough brought down a 
 > power line somewhere between here and PG&E.  And everything died for 
 > about ten seconds, and then my battery kicked in.  It works!  Of course 
 > even ten seconds is enough to make my external rotating backup disk 
 > unhappy, but I've ordered a UPS from Amazon to solve that problem.  It's 
 > supposed to kick in in milliseconds.  They claim that's fast enough to 
 > keep my disk happy.  We'll see.
 > 
 > The question is, how long could the battery keep the house going?  And 
 > unfortunately the web page that shows me all the solar power system 
 > statistics doesn't have any data from the time when the house was on 
 > battery power.  :(  But it was great that the laundry room didn't flood 
 > during the power failure as usual!