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12 volt lighting
tomarse:
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What is a UPS? Only UPS I know is the parcel delivery guys in brown vans!!!s
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a UPS is an uniterruptable power supply. basically a 12v battery and an inverter. charges off the mains all the time then as soon as the mains fails stuff runs off the battery instead. used to keep computers servers up all the time.
I fancy fitting 12v lighting in my house but havent got round to it yet. I have some old ups's to cannibalise and am considering just using the inverter in it to leave the 240 lighting in but charge it via something else during the day.
i am also building a wind generator. more efficient than solar and cost nothing to build. I made mk1 but need to refine my prop design for mk2.
have you also noticed that you can buy plug through power testers that tell you how much juice stuff uses. those power saving light bulbs are only 11w each, so it is almost less hassle just to use those everywhere!
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