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Do-it-yourself UPS

Posted by michael on from the shocking-experience dept.

Giampiero writes "Over at dansdata.com some guy named Dan creates a UPS out of some spare parts. To sum it up, "if you're looking for an industrial-capacity UPS solution, and don't like the prices of the off-the-peg options, it might be easier than you think to roll your own."" Of course you can mentally substitute U.S. 110 volts for Australian 220 volts wherever necessary...

6 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Better than paying 100 bucks for a Blackout Bus by zorg50 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess it was just me...

  2. Re:Better than paying 100 bucks for a Blackout Bus by zorg50 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I agree with you...I was in the mood for a bit of trolling.. :/

  3. MMMMMM, fried /.er's by gricholson75 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Really, I love fried /.er's, with mashed taters and corn. mmmmmmmmmhh.

    Although, the smell is hard to get rid of.

  4. Only problem by Chacham · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only problem with this UPS thing, is that I'd have to shutdown my computer to put it in! And lose my uptime, no way!

    Besides, I don't use electricity anyway. It's all coming from monopolistic power companies that don't opensource their generators. My computer runs completely on GNUicity (power is generated everytime RMS blows a fuse). I guess that makes my system GNU/GNU/Linux. Or would that be GNU/Linux/GNU?

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  5. Re:Be Careful by anonymous+cowarad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whore.

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  6. Re:This is dumb and dangerous. by nd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You wouldn't want a person without a CS degree writing software; we shouldn't have folks without EE degrees designing power supplies.

    That's a pretty ignorant attitude. Plenty of people professionally write software without a CS degree (either they have some unrelated degree, or no degree at all). Do you think everyone developing the Linux kernel has a CS degree? Not even close. The fact is, programming isn't all that uncommon of a hobby, and people can get started at surprisingly young ages. It doesn't take long for them to get to the point where they're qualified to write good software if they do things right.

    The statement is more true for "non-EEs shouldn't be designing power supplies", but still false.