On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:20:39 +0000 (GMT), Dave Plowman
wrote:

The next thing is whether to fit a battery charger to the system.

Might be a lot cheaper and easier to use a UPS rather than a genny.
That way you've got battery backed up CH 24x7 and never need to worry
about switching over.

Power the UPS from a 13A socket - and if the UPS battery gets a bit
short then unplug and connect the UPS to the genny so that it has an
incoming 240v supply from which to recharge - you can run the genny
for a few hours to recharge the UPS, then off for another few hours,
etc.

And if the leccy companies are still offline then there will be people
on the streets.....and I predict it won't be David Bowie and Mick
Jagger on behalf of charity collections.....

PoP

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