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During a bad storm a few weeks ago, we lost internet then power for a few hours. I’m not a fan of playing cards by candle light and the only UPS I have lasts for a few days then dies a terrible death screaming to be put down. Anyway, below is a picture of what I was able to scrounge up to recharge my phone and listen to music. Unfortunately I only remembered I had the car inverter the day after… Next time will be better 🙂 The big yellow device is a car jump start kit with 2x 12v cigarette lighter ports in the front. It also has a light, and compressor if needed. The silver device in front of that is the car inverter, but will only power low wattage devices off the… Read More »Poor Mans UPS

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Cheap Pickup: HP T1000RX (1KVA UPS)

I bought a HP T100RX last year, but when testing it, it’s alarm activated for seemingly no reason after about a week. So it was considered faulty and to be disposed of. The recent power spikes and bad weather lead me to look at it again, which lead me to this page: FIRMWARE UPGRADE RECOMMENDED In Summary: “T1000XR and T1500XR UPS with Firmware Version 2.00 or T2200XR UPS with Firmware Version 2.02 May Falsely Report Fan Failure and Shut Down After Running for Several Weeks” So I applied the firmware update from a windows XP machine, then spent 45 minutes to get the management software installed in XP,win7, and LinuxMCE… All failed due to the age of the java used to write both the installer and applications. I did find this gem though: “HP T1000XR… Read More »Cheap Pickup: HP T1000RX (1KVA UPS)