Rogers battery backup (Was: Re: What about Acanac?: was : Teksavvy ISP)

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 11 16:43:17 UTC 2009


Scott Allen wrote:
> On Thu Dec 10,2009 03:56:00 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:51:06PM -0500, Michael Lauzon wrote:
>>> You do know that 'Rogers' crappy phone system' comes with a
>>> battery backup?
>>
>> Yes.  It lasts up to 5 hours.  That's totally not good enough.
>
> Even if 5 hours is actually good enough for some, my concern would be:
>
> Is there anything in the system to monitor, maintain and test the 
> batteries in the customers' boxes? Is there any guarantee that the 
> battery hasn't lost capacity or died over the time since a box was 
> installed? I can envision many Rogers customers getting only a few 
> minutes or less of phone use during the next lengthy power failure.
>
> Although Bell may also use battery backup, at least it's centralised 
> and maintained. Being centralised, the batteries could easily be 
> supplemented with generators.
>
> A customer could plug the Rogers box into a UPS in case the internal 
> battery fails, but is "Joe six pack" going to consider it? Plus, the 
> UPS battery would now have to be maintained. "Hey, we could put 
> another UPS in front of that UPS!" ... ;-)
>
What you do then is put a diesel or turbine standby generator down in 
the basement.  ;-)

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