From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Christian Trefzer <ctrefzer@gmx.de>
Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@sci.fi>,
Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [IDEA] Poor man's UPS
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 22:45:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <447214EF.50803@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060522194040.GC5995@hermes.uziel.local>
Christian Trefzer wrote:
>
> Exactly, and since I cannot afford to buy one I'd have to build it
> myself using mainly car batteries. The most complex part would be to
> charge the batteries in a way that won't kill them over time. Building
> such stuff into the PSU after the secondary coil and AC/DC converter
> would save the double-conversion loss, therefore making this ideal for a
> single machine. But I'm still brainstorming, lacking both money and
> time.
>
Led/acid batteries are dangerous. Don't use them unless you know exactly
what you are doing.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-22 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-21 19:31 [IDEA] Poor man's UPS Pau Garcia i Quiles
2006-05-21 19:38 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-21 19:46 ` Michael Buesch
2006-05-22 8:19 ` Avi Kivity
2006-05-22 10:54 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-21 22:40 ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-22 13:04 ` Jan Knutar
2006-05-22 13:29 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-22 15:25 ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-22 15:54 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-05-22 19:34 ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-22 15:13 ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-22 15:40 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-22 15:48 ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-22 16:15 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2006-05-22 19:40 ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-22 19:45 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2006-05-23 2:02 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-05-22 19:46 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-22 22:40 ` Christian Trefzer
2006-05-22 17:05 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-05-21 23:02 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-22 0:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-22 0:23 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-22 1:29 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-05-22 1:44 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-22 9:29 ` Pavel Machek
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