Dave's next upgrade(man cave)

[NanoN00b]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Do you plan on drywalling the walls? Doesn't look like you have enough room.

Well, his drywaller might hate him... I'm glad I don't have to hang any in there.

Dave, that power issue, did you get an electrician to install all those circuits?

There are devices like this:

http://www.itwatchdogs.com/product-d...ger_x2-61.html

That can monitor power and your can track them (SNMP traps, emails, etc) and with a UPS and small server, you can log everything and even get power usage stats. What gets measured gets managed.

To run everything on a UPS, you're going to need to think big, like home genset big - if your power goes out for 12 hours on account of ENMAX (not impossible), all the emails in the world won't prevent an issue. You'd have to get a pretty big portable generator to keep everything running for any extended period of time.

If you get any UPS to run the motors for your pumps, you might want to check out how they run on the step-approximated UPS's... I have to use a true sine UPS otherwise the motor on my pumps just shudders for 5 minutes.