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Old 06-19-2021, 12:52 AM   #109 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RedDevil View Post
We have a small but densely populated country and the grid is also quite dense and almost 100% reliable; power outages are very rare.
Even though I have never been anywhere in Europe, I can relate to the time I spent in a city halfway between my hometown and the border with Uruguay. I don't remember experiencing any power outage in Pelotas, but the hospital almost beside the building where I rented an apartment still relied on a genset and at least once in a while there would be a test-run.


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The decision to only allow the critical components to the UPS was therefore logical, just not perfectly executed.
Perfection is usually not easy to achieve anyway. And it's often easier to realise it when something fails or doesn't perform as it was supposed to do...
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