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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
Cc: Christian Trefzer <ctrefzer@gmx.de>,
	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 19:02:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44726D47.8030306@mbligh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447214EF.50803@argo.co.il>

>> 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.

Buy an intelligent charger for an RV. They're designed to do pretty much
exactly that (deep cycle marine batteries, probably).

M.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-23  2:02 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
2006-05-23  2:02                 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
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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