I finally did it (Page 3): I got out the manuals to our two new recliners*, and it turns out the converter on the plug on both have batteries, but they are only good for 3 and 6...

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Mr. SONY wrote:

Nice to know I'm not the only one who for years has his recliner plugged into a UPS.
Electric, not manual.
I thought about that one day when I was reclined.
What would I do if the power went out!!!
I knew it would be extremely difficult if not impossible to get out of the chair.
Easy, UPS.
They do sell a few recliners with a battery backup incorporated into the recliner. Not many.

I got out the manuals to our two new recliners*, and it turns out the converter on the plug on both have batteries, but they are only good for 3 and 6 cycles. Besides, next to mine I also have a lamp and several chargers for e-book, phone etc. plugged into the UPS. My wife says she doesn't want one on her chair. She will just call me or one of our sons to help her get up. Or go to sleep until the power comes back. Just so she has water to sip and the remote for the TV/cable box she figures she can through short outages.

*We also have a rather small and very old power recliner my wife's uncle gave us. It only goes back and up, none of the multiple positions the two new ones have. It has a battery, but it is so old it hardly takes any charge and not only goes extremely slow, but sometimes runs out of power before it is all the way down. So we let the young folks use that one. They can get out if it fails.

BebuLamar

I can afford a generator something like a 20kW unit that run on either natural gas and profane (in case I lose my gas supply too). But I would hate the noise and I don't know how much it would cost me to run the generator.

Mr. SONY Loc: LI, NY

jerryc41 wrote:

That happened to me the other day. The chair wouldn't go down while I was watching TV. The power had gone out, but it didn't affect the TV. Then I heard the UPS beeping. I thought the chair was plugged into a UPS, but it wasn't. Now it is.

How did you get out of the chair?
Or did you wait until the power came back on.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

rck281 wrote:

Does the software that's used to shut down the computer, keep the computer from going to sleep? I tried the APC Power Chute software several years ago and it deactivated the sleep function. APC said they couldn't shut down the computer if it was in sleep mode.

Not at all
APC don't offer Free software for Mac, that's why I went with Cyber Power

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rck281 wrote:

Does the software that's used to shut down the computer, keep the computer from going to sleep? I tried the APC Power Chute software several years ago and it deactivated the sleep function. APC said they couldn't shut down the computer if it was in sleep mode.

Well, if the computer is sleeping, it won't know what is happening in the real world.....
The computer has to be awake to either poll the UPS or receive an interrupt from it.

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

[quote=Longshadow]Well, if the computer is sleeping, it won't know what is happening in the real world.....
The computer has to be awake to either poll the UPS or receive an interrupt from it.[/quoOK?
I use Macrium Refelct for backup. It wakes the computer to do the backup. Updates are also initiated what the computer is in sleep. You can also wake a computer by sending a special packet on a lan.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rck281 wrote:

I use Macrium Refelct for backup. It wakes the computer to do the backup. Updates are also initiated what the computer is in sleep. You can also wake a computer by sending a special packet on a lan.

Interesting, I just press the down-arrow.

(Actually any key.)

But, my comment was in reference to his scenario, not about all scenarios......
I would anticipate that each device software will have its own operating characteristics.

A command batch file on my computer pauses when my computer goes to sleep. Picks up and continues when I wake it.

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

Longshadow wrote:

Interesting, I just press the down-arrow.

(Actually any key.)

Yes, everyone does that. We were discussing software waking a computer. The Wake On Lan feature is used to wake a sleeping office computer from a home computer (unless you live in your office, then you can just press any key).

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rck281 wrote:

Yes, everyone does that. We were discussing software waking a computer. The Wake On Lan feature is used to wake a sleeping office computer from a home computer (unless you live in your office, then you can just press any key).

You were discussing software waking computers, I was discussing why his didn't.......

Close, but no cigar.

Curious - Is Wake on LAN available in Win 7?

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

Longshadow wrote:

Curious - Is Wake on LAN available in Win 7?

It's been a few years since I used this feature. Actually, I may have been on Win 7 at the time. I think this is dependent on the network adapter features more than the OS. This will probably require you to enable this in the BIOS/UFEI. There are a number of instructions online on how to generate a "magic packet," as it's called.

Lucasdv123

I got me a champion hybrid inverter after the February freeze last year that killed over 200 people here in Texas.i did have a 10 year old champion that got us through the freeze.i have a natural gas stove, central heat,and a water heater.i managed to connect the generator to the blower and thermostat to get the central heat going.we ran it for 4 days straight. That running 3500 watt generator can also run 2 small window ac units which will keep us cool during a power outage in the summer and the fridge , freeze, and some lights.can't afford a whole house standby generator but this little champion can do the trick.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

Note that although WOL should work there are cases where it doesn't. I have two PCs, one is an Intel NUC, and the other a bog standard PC, where WOL does not work. Everything in the BIOS, network adapter and Win 10 itself that should be set has been but still no go. One of these days I might have another go at it when I get sufficiently pissed off. Online searches tell me 50 things to do, most of which are the same and repetitive, but none tell me what to look at if none of the standard ways work. Online searches can be annoyingly frustrating when everybody repeats the same old stuff as if it was something new.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rck281 wrote:

It's been a few years since I used this feature. Actually, I may have been on Win 7 at the time. I think this is dependent on the network adapter features more than the OS. This will probably require you to enable this in the BIOS/UFEI. There are a number of instructions online on how to generate a "magic packet," as it's called.

Ahhh.. Thanks. Not worth it at the moment. The computer is 10 years old and only upstairs.
I'll use footnet to wake. I need the exercise.