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cantstraferight
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Joined: Jan 16, 2007
Posts: 1426

Post Subject: Use a car battery in your UPS (Systm)
Posted on: Mar 2, 2009

Theres a new episode of Systm online, In this episode Patrick Norton and Robert Chang replace a UPS (Uninterrupted power supply) battery with a cars battery.

You can watch the flash version here:
http://revision3.com/systm/hackedups/

or download the episode for watching later:

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Gh0sTly
Dayton Metro PC Owner

Joined: Jul 24, 2007
Posts: 1235

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Posted on: Mar 3, 2009

nifty hack, but highly dangerous. I would conduct this hack only if I had a detached Garage, and could place the battery packs and the charging unit there, and run a heavy gauge power cable to my house from the UPS to where my Computer equipment was, but, with the right pack setup, you could possibly get away with running your whole house, albeit limited. Say it could power the Fridgerator, to keep food from going bad, the computer, to shutdown and save files, and possibly a radio and a phone, for emergency use.

It would take alot of batterys in packs to go for 24 hours in a situation like that. but it could be very worth it

FreshWater
Core2 Quad Extreme QX96500-ES @ 3Ghz, 4gb Patriot DDR2-1066Mhz RAM, 4gb Intel Turbo Memory, 3x 500GB WD Blue drives, Samsung DVD-RW, GTX 560ti-1gb Gfx card.
Future Mods: none for Freshwater. Next build will be all new.

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*cantstraferight* [Insert funny here] Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 1426	Post Subject: Posted on: Mar 3, 2009 As long as I have enough time to turn my server off so there's no corruption and I have enough power to keep a low powered light on for a few nights I'm happy with my UPS.
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