[SunRescue] An intriguing idea...

[Mike Hebel]

>>> On April 11, Tim wrote:
>>> > by cake box do you mean IPC style?
>>> > Well..., I don't think you would get usable life out of it, those
>>> > machines aren't exactly green, and if it is running one of the older
>>> > disks, those things are power black holes.  If you had a software
>>>
>>>   Oh good grief.  I had a loaded IPX run for nearly two days on a
>>> 1KVA UPS.  They practically run on brain current.
>>
>>I just checked last night (I've got a nice power meter), and it gives
>>34W for an IPC. That is practically brain current.
>>FYI: an ELC does 85W and a sun3-60 75W (150W including monitor)
>>The machines have a cos phi ranging from 0.45 to 0.7.

So you probably could get about 15 to 20 minutes out of an internal battery.
Cool!  I think I'll start looking at the small UPS boxes at Worst Buy or
Office Despot to see what might be "fittable" in the case.  That's probably
easier than a custom made one but I'd still like to try that as well
somewhere down the road.

Like I said - I'm an incurable hardware hacker at heart.  But then aren't we
all? *grin*

Mike Hebel