Pete C. wrote:
Wayne Boatwright wrote:
On Fri 25 Sep 2009 08:51:02p, mm told us...

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:34:21 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote:

On Fri 25 Sep 2009 03:26:32p, Don Wiss told us...

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:34:21 -0700, "Walter R."
wrote:

After reading the responses so far, I have decided to pay my 25 bucks
and keep my landline. At least I know that I have highly reliable
service, when I need it.
And it will work during power outages.

Don www.donwiss.com (e-mail link at home page bottom).

Only if you have a "plain vanilla" phone directly plugged into the jack
or hard-wired. Cordless phones of any ilk are dependent only local AC
power in the house for signal transmission.
My Uniden fancy phone doesn't do special functions, not even redial,
in a power failure, but the phone itself still works then. It has a
cord to the handset, and a cordless phone elsewhere.

Obviously yours is different and probably not in the majority. Anyone who
wants a phone that requires nothing more than connection to a phone line
should shop wisely.


UPSes are cheap these days, and if you are in an area that is prone to
long power outages, a small generator can quickly pay for itself by
keeping the refrigerator going and preventing spoiled food.

But as usual the cheap ones are real junk. Had an interesting experience
just last month. Someone of the big box is their friend mentality bought
some cheap UPSs for equipment at a site. I received a call that various
equipment powered down. The cheepo big box UPSs don't have an auto buck
boost but instead draw energy from the battery. The local power company
lost a large circuit breaker upstream so they had a brownout in the
region. The voltage was only dropped to 109 VAC but that was enough for
the toy UPSs to drop their load after a while. The real UPSs I had
specified a few years earlier kept there loads up with no problem until
the next day when the power company completed their repairs.