[Asterisk-Users] Re: Digium Hardware Reliability

[M.Hockings]

Tigran Kocharyan wrote:
> Mike,
> If you feel afraid of the next power outage, why not install a more 
> powerfull UPS with a longer run time? Or, as it is in my case, a friend 
> of mine substituted the factory default battery in the UPS with a car 
> battery, that holds the Server for 4-5 hours. Add another battery and it 
> will hold 8-9 hours.
> Really funny but it works.
> 
> Regards,
> Tigran
> 

You know what Tigran, I have been considering exactly that.  The UPS 
that I am using has two 12v batteries in it in series.  The batteries 
don't seem to be holding a charge any longer (which was the start of my 
woes). They are readily available in the US for about $15 each but seem 
to be unavailable in Canada.  So my plan is to get another UPS for now 
and work out a better battery solution for the first one as it is a nice 
UPS with AVR and all that stuff.  Thanks for the confirmation that this 
type of solution would work.

Mike