How to game when Eskom cuts the power

[Kevin]

How to game when Eskom cuts your electricity

Tired of Eskom’s load-shedding? We have the solution

[blaaislaai]

Will just wait till the power comes back on, not THAT desperate to game.

[Snoopimaru]

Will just wait till the power comes back on, not THAT desperate to game.

same - in the meantime I'd rather catch up on sleep

[Ike_009]

/Looks at bank balance

So board games then.

[PsychoFish]

Bleh, I have a UPS and its primary function is to safely shut down my system after 15min of running on batteries.

[Hagan]

I would rather just get me a UPS instead of a generator; they cost too much to maintain and make a hell of a noise.

[czc]

Looks at suburb. What power cuts?

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I would rather just get me a UPS instead of a generator; they cost too much to maintain and make a hell of a noise.

Have you heard a bunch of UPS's when the power goes out? Bloody annoying.

[Hagan]

Looks at suburb. What power cuts?

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Have you heard a bunch of UPS's when the power goes out? Bloody annoying.

So it's either noise and gaming, or no noise (find a laptop and watch a movie) and/or playing board games.

[PsychoFish]

just never ever skimp on a UPS, you get some really shit ones. Generally you can identify them by the term "Back up", "offline" and "Standby", always look for "Online", "Line interactive" or "Double Conversion"

[mradovan]

I have a 1200W inverter hooked to 2x 100Ah deep cycle batteries.
Keeps a +/- 600W setup going for +/- 3 hours. I could probably squeeze an extra hour if I use headphones instead of hifi and turn off other non-essentials. Got the thing from maidenelectronics.co.za, cost me 6K.

The only annoyance is distance to the modem - running the extension cord from the UPS at the moment. Tried with a separate cheap 650VA UPS with 7Ah battery, but it only runs for +/- 25 min. Must be the inefficiency of the inverter... If I take the battery out and plug the modem directly to the battery terminals, it should theoretically run a few hours. But that has a high inconvenience factor... Has anyone else solved that problem cheaply?