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sparc24··on Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
No it is NOT.

Trump Tower, Trump Airlines. Trump Taj Mahal

Oh wait.. NVM

sparc24··on That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think
I ended up in India during the lockdown. Power outages are frequent and so are voltage fluctuations. Most people have a generator. Most houses haves 3 phase power coming in. Basically anything over 3 kvA the utility guys put in 3 phase at 415V - 3 hot and a neutral. About 3 weeks ago we lost neutral which resulted in double voltage both my MBP chargers got fried including the long extension wires which are super useful. It also took out an AC, a refrigerator, 2 air purifiers. Anything connected to the BackUPS did survive including the 65" oled tv. Luckily we managed to fix all of fit with simply replacing the PCBs. Being stranded with my laptops would really have sucked.

Since I am stuck here til next July I started fixing some of this. More than anything else power conditioning was the single most important thing. Anything with any reasonable switch-mode power supply will be fine on a line interactive UPS, most people don't need to spend $ on an online UPS - esp if your power is fairly clean. We had old locally made generator so I finally replaced that with a nice single phase 25kVA generator. The alternator has voltage regulation. For the mains power I was told most people just put a Servo Stabilizer but I didn't want any moving parts so found an IGBT based static stabilizer instead.

http://anjalipowersystem.com/static-stabilizer.html https://download.schneider-electric.com/files?p_File_Name=JS...

sparc24··on Vitamin D deficiency and Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
What about 60,000 IU/week for someone who had D,25-OH at 7. I did that for a few weeks. Now I am up to 44 and switched to monthly. It's a singel 5ml dose. You just drink it once instead of taking it every day.
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