Posted on 04/18/2015 7:10:33 AM PDT by ckilmer
Make sure that they are open air or get plenty of breathing.
They emit gas that needs to evaporate not concentrate.
A thing of horror: an UPS rack vs one enterprising mouse.
Only saw the results, and that was in passing.
The rack tech was cussing a blue streak.
If that mouse crossed the + and - it would have met 540DC in a moment. Yes Thomas Edison, it will kill you.
I’ll bet the batteries survived.
It doesn’t sound like the battery cabinet. We convert the DC to AC. That mouse probably got in touch with an AC output.
They did.
But the charred mess of mouse, smoke, tripped breakers, some fuse somewhere that I was told about but didn’t see, and the charred remnants of nesting material on top of the battery were “interesting”.
It looked worse than it actually was.
But ugh, the smell.
Critters are attracted to the quiet of high voltage.
Of course you know why computer glitches are called bugs?
I haven’t seen a “solar farm” yet but, besides being totally unnecessary, “wind farms” are one of the most disgusting eyesores to ever grace the otherwise beautiful landscape.
Not my first rodeo. As I said, this was engineered years ago, and I'm not about to change that now. I already invested the time in doing all the math.
It is a portable system (like I'm going to move it LOL) and I'm not going to change anything but batteries as they go out.
/johnny
First computer bug was a moth caught in, i think, a punch card reader.
/johnny
Excellent, if true.
The problem has always been that these articles always turn out to be written by fanboys, not analysts.
Also the whole not working at night bit. And weather.
Magic blue smoke, once realeased from asystm you have to fill out some forms and order refill smoke.
I’m not asking you to change anything JR Freeper. I’m just letting you know what I can provide.
Always at your service.
The UPS guy.
and yes FM still works on occasion.
For reference the sandstorm covered an area larger than the USA and lasted for several days ( search news Dubai sandstorm for ground level images)
Guessing the glass covered panels got a mighty good scouring, not to mention burial in some locations. Never do see news about the clean up process after these common storms.
I greatly appreciate your interest in my system. Because these days, I don't want to have to re-engineer it. But I may add a USB charger system for my rechargeable stuff like phone and tablet and e-cig instead of having all of these wall warts.
Power testing, real load control math.. I can do it, but I don't want to. ;)
/johnny
But Dubai has slaves to do that for them.
/johnny
Yeah, that kind of info would be neat to see stacked against generation: cost of cleanup.
You want USB?
I have a female 12v accessory socket on my solar charging battery, coupled with a male plug with USB outlets <$10. Works great.
/johnny
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