Time for New Batteries
Summer is here, and it's brought daily rain showers and thunderstorms with it. One of the joys of living in parts of Florida is the constant glitches on the power grid. Last week our power was out for a few hours due to a problem with something on the pole right outside our house. FPL was out fairly quickly to diagnose the problem, and when the fixed the problem and reconnected the line there was a heck of a spark. Here's the FPL repair technician working on the line.
For a couple of days after that we had random brownouts where the power would drop off for a few seconds and then come back on. This isn't a big deal unless you're doing something that can be interrupted (like watching a DVD like we were doing at home yesterday evening). Even at work this morning the power flickered for a few minutes shortly after I arrived.
To combat these issues, I generally put battery backup units on the electronics. Our Verizon FiOS box has a battery built in, but it only powers the telephone portion of the box (which we don't use), so I have my own battery backup on it to keep the Internet alive. I have another in the office to run the cable modem and computer monitor, and yet another on the TV, cable box, and DVD player in the living room. Unfortunately, some of my boxes are several years old and the batteries are worn out (as we found out yesterday). So, it's time to make a trek out to Batteries Plus and acquire replacement batteries for my backup systems. Hopefully the rain and storms will give us a short reprieve so the electronics won't get too stressed from all the interruptions (the lawn could use a few days to dry out as well).
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