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Protecting Hardware on Unstable Power Sources?
psuedo_samurai asks: "Later this year, I will be returning for a visit to a small 3rd world country in Africa. I was lucky enough to travel to the country before, and the last time that I went I was able to bring four fully functional computers that I donated to a local high school, to provide a small computer network for teaching purposes. I had loaded Red Hat Linux with Open Office and a multitude of free goodies onto the systems and everything was working well. The equipment I brought back with me survived for about 12 months, but eventually fell victim to power surges, brownouts, blackouts, and so forth. On my return, I will be better prepared and am planning on setting up 8 computers, this time around. However, I am still stuck on how to best provide either a battery backup (aside from lugging UPS's along with me) with automatic shutdown and/or AVR on the cheap. Does anyone have any good references, experience, or suggestions on how to over come the challenge of running a computer network in a country where the power fluctuates wildly and multiple outages in week are not unusual occurrences?"
Google is your friend. Just put the UPS in the PC.
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A good point. However, replacement batteries would not need to be compatible with the original design, since you don't need the laptops to actually be portable. That would reduce the cost of replacment batteries somewhat.
suggestions on how to over come the challenge of running a computer network in a country where the power fluctuates wildly and multiple outages in week are not unusual occurrences?
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