The Cosmic Puppet's Universe.

[Cosmic Puppet]

Good luck getting it sorted, definitely no fun having a bad tooth.

I had what I thought was a toothache recently, and the whole side of my head was in pain, but it turned out to be a blocked ear.

Thanks man. Parents were moaning at me with the Oxford thing but I'm a singer, I wanna try to save it first. They ain't good for anxiety like.

That's me going to Oxford tomorrow. Checked out another in Yorkshire which had a 3 year waiting list!
Looking forward to it as I've never been to the home of Inspector Morse and Radiohead lol

[Cosmic Puppet]

I loved Oxford.

[PeckPeekPoke]

Looks like a great place to visit.
What is that mound in the first photo?

[stephen_usher]

That’s the castle mound.

[PeckPeekPoke]

That’s the castle mound.

Thanks, Stephen. With that I found some history of the site:
https://morrisoxford.co.uk/castle-mound/

[Cosmic Puppet]

One weekend we had a lot of power outages. The power would often flicker on and off about 3 times. For this reason I don't leave my precious Atari setup on when I go and do something else or pop out to the shop.

Someone told me about UPS's tonight.

Do you guys think it's worth my while eventually having something like this, so I get a chance to finish anything I'm working on and power down properly?

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Also my original Atari power supply consumed 120w

Is the Exxos power supply the same or less?

[exxos]

Exxos PSU uses like 100w less

You have to be careful with UPSes as the cheaper ones are square wave output not sine like mains.

I've got one of these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/APC-1500-tow ... ect=mobile

I've bought a few from that guy and never had problems.

I fitted 2 larger golf trolley batteries to mine. Can't find the post I did about it now

[rubber_jonnie]

Personally these days I only run one server, and if it dies as a result of a power cut, then it isn't the end of the world and I'll probably elect to retire it at that point. All my main machines are laptops, so have a built in UPS

If you're going to have data you care about on a machine, then a UPS is a good idea, as it 'should' offer a cleaner supply and the security of no unscheduled power drops, but if you're going out, then switching off cleanly is the best option, because a UPS will only have a limited run time anyway. With my old set of servers, I used to get maybe 20 minutes of runtime (3x Dell 1U servers), so it gave me enough time to power off cleanly and that was it.

Obviously your mileage may vary based on the load imposed on the UPS.

APC are a reasonable make, that's who made my old one.

[stephen_usher]

APC or Eaton. I go for the latter these days by preference and the controller are better and and easier to deal with over USB.

If you're looking at filtering and worried about mains noise then you need an "on-line" UPS which charges the batteries via the mains and always powers the load via the inverter.

[Cosmic Puppet]

Thanks guys. You're not gonna believe this, but it did it again about 40 mins ago. Just out for a few minutes, but knocked the computer off just before I was about to work on some stuff. I knocks out the mobile transmitter on the hill behind me, so I have the weird situation where I'm told to report live outages, but can't. I will have to get on a bus and travel to a signal to report it live. *sighs* by which time it may be back on at the house.

I'd like a UPS with standard UK sockets and I can plug in the most precious devices as I have 16 things plugged in. p.s. It's not tripping. The whole meter goes dark.