So something happened - we had very bad weather, snow and wind. 
And the power lines went down, and we had no power for a looong time.

This was a nice test for our server, medialab.freaknet.org, his services
(gopher, ssh, etc) and the radio link. 

Well, the radio link went down a lot - no UPS on one side of it, this must
be fixed asap.

But at our base, Medialab was attached to our UPS - an old APC 650, with a
LOT of batteries connected in parallel.

It was a nice test! Medialab now runs on a Thinkpad T23 - it's a laptop,
with his own battery, so the UPS is kinda doubled: when it goes down, the
laptop battery will go on for another hour, hopefully.

We have 6 12V batteries in parallel, for a total of 42A/h. The UPS was
running straight 14 HOURS and medialab never went down.

So, it worked. 

Electric service in sicily / Italy is a real MESS. :(

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