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[theweaselking]

I have never before in my life seen an entire office building switch from main to battery to generator and back to main without a *flicker* on any of the thousands of computers running.

I knew it was possible, but *damn*, it's impressive to see. Now I want specs on the batteries.

My co-workers were not impressed - after all, the entire system stayed up and running with nothing at all interrupting anything, so why is THAT remarkable? Philistines.

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[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I've seen more than one setup where everything always ran off the batteries, as conditioned power universally was the goal. As long as your draw isn't too large a percentage, the batteries are basicly a pass through, and yeah, there's minor heat generation from it. You can go with a system where power is always passed through a conditioner that switches over (which is what I have on a small scale, the important machines and the phone switch in my rack room all live on APC Matrix 5000s, but you will notice when the cutover from wall power to batteries occurs, it isn't instant, and can't be).