Re: [cobalt-developers] Qube 2 UPS or Battery Supply Backup ?

["Byron C. Servies" <bservies@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/29/00 at 10:28 PM, jstrebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jakob Strebel)
wrote:

> Hi, I intend to protect my Qube from Power failure. I see two ways to
> do it. Buy a standard UPS (this means I need a UPS and a battery)
> 
> or the second option could be to put the Cube directly to a PB
> Battery.
> 
> Looking inside to the area of the board where 12VDC comes in I see
> circuitry which regulates the internal power.
> 
> Is there anyone who has done this successfully? Could be another good
> reason to buy a Qube because we do need a UPS, it just could run from
> a battery!

I use an APC UPS and their free daemon for monitoring battery power for
automatic shutdown.  Seems to work pretty well.

Byron