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claidheamhmorWith the loadshedding we've been subjected to, we're looking at better battery backups. My old, depleted, 600VA UPS is enough to hold up the router, fibre, and access point for only about 2 minutes, so I need to get a bigger one, maybe 2kVA. I'm looking around for good prices on those.
The battery for the gate and the garage seem OK, and we're not using them constantly, so that's OK. The alarm system and the electric fence, however, were only lasting around two hours on the batteries they had, so I've replace both with more expensive, higher capacity deep-cycle batteries. Hopefully that'll last the full four hours. There were only R400 each, not too bad if they last.
The battery for the gate and the garage seem OK, and we're not using them constantly, so that's OK. The alarm system and the electric fence, however, were only lasting around two hours on the batteries they had, so I've replace both with more expensive, higher capacity deep-cycle batteries. Hopefully that'll last the full four hours. There were only R400 each, not too bad if they last.