Linux World Canada Show, April 24-26, 2006

[William Park]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:23:34PM -0800, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 2/1/06, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > - Dropping the power plugs for the booth. The question
> > being "Is being able to power up PCs/Laptops/etc.
> > worth the $$ that the convention centre charges?".
> 
> One question...  How much would it cost for a UPS powerful enough to 
> keep a couple of laptops running for a couple of days?  If power costs
> more than $300, I'd imagine that two UPSes costing about that would
> suffice to keep 2 laptops running, assuming the UPSes got recharged in
> the evening, and the laptops were chosen with a view to power
> consumption.
> 
> {e.g. - someone runs the laptops off the UPSes offsite, and makes sure
> that they get ~ 10h of lifetime out of that, and then the policy is that
> ONLY those laptops get power...}
> 
> I'm sure there are some amongst us who could use an extra UPS; lending
> it for a 2 day "burn in" should be no bad thing :-).

Excellent idea!  Car battery and 12V inverter might also do.

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