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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Household backup battery to keep wireless running during outages in Africa?
 
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adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget
Grimey Drawer
Sounds like a plain old UPS to me.

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adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget
Grimey Drawer

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

Most Uninterrupted Power Sources just run for a couple minutes so you can fire up a backup power source though, right? We're looking for something that we can use for hours at a time so we're not burning up gallons of diesel for the primary purpose of keeping two sockets powered for the wireless.
An APC smart ups 750 could probably run a wrt54g (I just picked a common router) for something like 10 hours without any additional power input. It would probably be more than that in the real world, but I did some very quick back of the napkin math.

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