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OldGeek

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#2746237 18-Jul-2021 13:39

mdf:

We were affected by the Wellington South power cut too. In the interests of preventing another Lord of the Flies scenario the next time this happens, I'm shopping for a UPS too.

Constant Vigil product looks great. If I understand this right, it is 240V --> 12V battery --> 12V router + ONT?

However our wifi is from cabled WAPs run off a POE switch. Is there an equivalent product for POE (which is 48V I think) that isn't cost-prohibitive? As I understand it, cheap (sub-$1000) UPS are more designed for a few minutes of runtime to have a managed/orderly shutdown rather than actually running something off batteries for a decent chunk of time?

The principle of the Constant Vigil hardware is to maintain the supply to low voltage (12 volts or less) relatively low power consumption units such as an ONT or router, rather than using a UPS to maintain 230v AC supply. I would encourage you to use the 'Contact' tab (Contact – Constant Vigil) to initiate a discussion with them - they may well be able to do something for your POE hardware.

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#2746246 18-Jul-2021 14:28

OldGeek:

The principle of the Constant Vigil hardware is to maintain the supply to low voltage (12 volts or less) relatively low power consumption units such as an ONT or router, rather than using a UPS to maintain 230v AC supply. I would encourage you to use the 'Contact' tab (Contact – Constant Vigil) to initiate a discussion with them - they may well be able to do something for your POE hardware.

Cheers, have just dropped them a line. I like the idea of just going DC - DC at the right voltage, rather than stepping up and down again.

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#2746301 18-Jul-2021 18:46

Depending on WiFi coverage and layout, you might be able to run using only the onboard WiFi in the router during an outage, particularly if it's fairly central.

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#2746314 18-Jul-2021 20:16

Does HFC still rely on locally powered nodes in the street? If so, a UPS isn't going to help much at all.

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#2746315 18-Jul-2021 20:17

Fairly sure it does, yes.

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#2746335 18-Jul-2021 22:06

snnet:
The only problem with some of these outages, depending on the technology of course, is that any remote equipment may have also lost power. When I was on copper, the cabinet at the end of the street either had no batteries or depleted batteries and died with power cuts so no effort of having a backup supply at my end helped at all

We have one of those cabinets in the street. Am wondering if this is what happened in our case. Our power was only off a couple of hours but when it came back on, internet didn’t come back on until the next day. Probably HFC runs out of there too.

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