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RickZeeland26-May-20 2:57

RickZeeland

26-May-20 2:57

Let's hope their Pi won't be down $Shucks | :-\$

Marc Clifton26-May-20 3:16

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26-May-20 3:16

RickZeeland wrote:
Let's hope their Pi won't be down

Just what I was thinking!

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OriginalGriff26-May-20 3:32

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26-May-20 3:32

Depends on the weather - last time I heard there was a 40% chance of it being too inclement to launch.

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Mike Hankey26-May-20 4:46

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26-May-20 4:46

A huge step in the new space era!

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GenJerDan26-May-20 21:47

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26-May-20 21:47

Apparently, the company I work for is in charge of rescuing the astronauts, should anything go wrong. OMG | :OMG:

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#realJSOP26-May-20 1:04

26-May-20 1:04

We had some pretty severe storms on Saturday, and lost power several times. One of those times was three consecutive power cycle events that had some detrimental effects on my Raspberry Pi3B+ DNS servers. One Pi died completely, and the other fried its thumb drive (it's somewhat curious that the pi that died was not the one that contained the corrupted thumb drive). I re-imaged the thumb drive and had a spare Pi, so recovery took a few hours (I took the opportunity to update the OS and PiHole software).

For the Pi that died, we interred it in a small crypt in the back yard, and had a small private remembrance ceremony in the house. There were tears.

EDIT
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BTW, they were plugged into a UPS (which I also switched out for a spare one).

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modified 26-May-20 7:39am.

theoldfool26-May-20 1:09

theoldfool

26-May-20 1:09

RIP
UPS's are your friends. Smile | :)

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Rage26-May-20 1:16

Rage

26-May-20 1:16

theoldfool wrote:
RIP RPI

FTFY

theoldfool26-May-20 1:20

theoldfool

26-May-20 1:20

If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

#realJSOP26-May-20 1:35

26-May-20 1:35

I have six UPS's. I had a spare one that I connected the pi's too so I could see if I could fix the one that was in use at the time.

RickZeeland26-May-20 1:15

RickZeeland

26-May-20 1:15

Time for a Pi-lgrimage $Shucks | :-\$

Randor 26-May-20 1:20

Randor

26-May-20 1:20

Hi,

Most of the 18650 power banks allow you to charge/discharge at the same time. They go for around $10-20 and would have prevented this from happening. The 18650 batteries on the other hand... go for around $5 each for the good brands.

With no power my board would still be up for several days.

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#realJSOP26-May-20 1:36

26-May-20 1:36

They were on a UPS. You normally don't find out your UPS is dead until something like this happens. :/

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter26-May-20 1:44

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26-May-20 1:44

The eternal backup...

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Randor 26-May-20 1:45

Randor

26-May-20 1:45

Hmmmm,

#realJSOP wrote:
They were on a UPS. You normally don't find out your UPS is dead until something like this happens. :/

Interesting. I've never seen a UPS without a battery indicator. Most of my APC units have an audible alarm that you simply cannot ignore.

Your prepper skills seem to be devolving. You should go check the emergency food cache... I bet some of it is spoiled.

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

Dan Neely26-May-20 2:40

Dan Neely

26-May-20 2:40

A bad battery indicator wouldn't detect a failed surge suppression system; and I'm less than impressed with the ones in the APC towers I have. They may alert on a completely dead battery, but not one that's degraded to the point it can't keep your system running until it does a self-test and crashes it due to power loss.

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Randor 26-May-20 2:59

Randor

26-May-20 2:59

Well,

I don't know what model you are using but I paid $700 each for the ones here in my office and both of them perform a self-test periodically and do indeed test for surge suppression and wiring faults along with the battery load test. The alarms are *really* loud... it's the only negative thing I can say about them.

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#realJSOP26-May-20 3:43

26-May-20 3:43

I'm using consumer grade UPS's ($180 1500 mva).

Everything I'd read says not to plug a power strip into a UPS (or is it plugging a UPS into a power strip?), but in this case, I think doing so might have at least saved the hardware.

#realJSOP26-May-20 3:39