need...more...power

[cellio]

When I came home from work on erev Sukkot I was greeted by the plaintive wail of a UPS that had lost its will to live (thank you thank you thank you for not doing that 12 hours later!). There was nothing to be done then but unplug things. After Shabbat I replaced it; while I briefly considered just ordering a new battery, I noted that I was using all outlets on the UPS and all the wall outlets and was still resorting to a power squid, and on a recent power outage the UPS hadn't really held up very long. I was asking it to do too much; time for a bigger one. (And anyway, I didn't want my equipment to be unprotected for the several more days it would take for a new battery to arrive.)

This is as orderly as these things get:

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[cellio]

I'm not overloading any outlets; the UPS came with 10, which I am exactly using. I would hope that the device would be up to powering the outlets it provides, but I've had misplaced hope before. :-) (The only other thing plugged into the wall is a seldom-used lamp.)

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Oh, I meant that the tangle of cables scares me. It looks like a Gordinian knot.

[cellio]

They're actually about as untangled as I can make them. These things tend to degrade over time, but since I was replacing the UPS anyway I unplugged everything, laid out all the cords, and then plugged them in as best I could while getting the important ones into the battery-protected slots. I just have too many powered devices on my desk. :-)