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About half a year ago I bought a used UPS. It didn't have enough output to power my main PC, but it's perfect for my home server and network.

Starting on Christmas eve and continuing even today, my neighbourhood has been getting intermittent brownouts. It's only affecting one phase (house is on a three-phase 240V connection), which happens to be the one powering my network (also all of the light fixtures, stupid Soviet house), and the UPS works beautifully. I didn't lose any of my services even once. Without it, I would probably be reinstalling Proxmox and praying to the RAID gods to restore my hard drives.

"It pays for itself as soon as it is needed" is proven true once again.

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[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Oh shit, thats super cool, I know a bit about the US power grid since that's where I live, but all I knew about the European power grid is that like most of the world they have 240V AC instead of 120 like most outlets provide here in the US (even though we technically also have 240v and just use it for like ovens and electric dryer machines)

Thank you for teaching me stuff, I had no idea three phase power is so common elsewhere!

(Also fuck yeah, technology connections, I love that guy!)