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Accidental Tech Podcast

569: Do Grasshoppers Have Tongues?

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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0:00.0

So a giant storm blew through here last night and so I was up all night dealing with it.

0:05.2

And so I'm very tired. I will say so a few like systems I had in place ended up working very well one of those is

0:14.3

i have solar panels and power wall batteries and they back up like some of the

0:18.9

outlets and stuff in the house

0:21.0

uh... like you know critical stuff like the fridge and, you know, a couple of

0:24.0

outlets, you know, not the whole HVAC system, because it would be way too much power for that.

0:29.6

But it worked perfectly, like we had a huge power outage for, well not, I mean not huge by, you know,

0:36.3

disaster standards. It was like a four hour power outage and it worked perfectly fine.

0:40.8

I did learn, I don't know if this is a thing I had all my

0:44.2

Wi-Fi gear of course that's backed up because that's the most important.

0:46.8

It goes fridge and then all of the networking gear and I had a UPS on the networking gear as well.

0:54.8

Like the outlet that it plugs into is backed up by the solar battery thing, but the I had a

0:59.0

UPS there just because I had an extra UPS and I was like I'll put it up

1:01.4

but there give myself a little more time if I need it and for whatever reason when the AC power

1:07.5

switches from the grid to the solar battery backup the UPS thinks there's been a power outage and

1:13.6

doesn't take the power and switches into like I'm off mode and just and starts

1:17.5

supplying power and the UPS eventually then ran out and died and turned off and even though there was power at the outlet.

1:26.7

Like why?

1:28.3

What happened there?

1:29.3

Is it not having like, is it having something like fake grounding or something like what could that be under

1:33.7

vaulted maybe oh that's interesting maybe like if it only outputs like a hundred

1:37.6

maybe like a little you know the UPS is super sensitive to having you know whatever

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