[Hidden-tech] Office class generator

[Tom Kopec]

with the sticky wet snow we had in this storm, solar panels are gonna be 
dark for at least a day or so. And every night :)

Anyway, if you're in a situation where you need to have some number of 
systems (computer and otherwise) that need to be up, you need to have a 
system in place to deal with those needs.

This probably means a diesel (or maybe propane) fueled generator that 
sits on a pad, gets tested periodically, and is in general a serious 
piece of gear no matter what it's size.

Or, you might look at putting the critical stuff into a hosted (or 
multi-zone mirrored) situation, understanding all the issues that brings.

...tom

(me, I have my ancient Honda generator and a pile of extension cords.. 
and when I got power back, moved it to my parents house in south hadley 
so they could move back in until THEIR power came back. But that's not a 
critical-infrastructure situation.)

On 11/8/2011 12:25 PM, Matt Lampiasi wrote:
> Hi
>
> I use solar. It's not cheap and it's not financially practical to 
> build a large system of say 10,000 watts as you stated. That seems 
> like way overkill for an office unless you have electric heat. you 
> didn't say what you need to power though (did you?).  I have about 
> 1000 watts of panels, a large battery bank and a 2000 watt pure sine 
> wave inverter. can run pretty much anything in the house, just not 
> everything at once.