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[MEtalGuy66]

I have had many people ask me if theres any way to make the MIO's on-board RAM nonvolatile. One popular use for the MIO's onboard memory has alwayse been to store often accessed files, config data, often loaded executables, etc. In a BBS scenario, this can make the board substantially faster, while reducing wear & tear on physical drives. Only problem is that if power fails, you loose it.

Here is a UPS that I found that is perfect for the MIO. It's made to provide backup power to residential internet gateways, routers, and IP telephony equipment.

http://www.belkin.com/gatewaybattery/

http://en-us-support...ct/detail/p/667

YOu can pick them up relatively cheap on Ebay or Amazon. It plugs directly into the MIO, and takes the place of the "power brick" you would normally use.

It has a trap-door in the back to easily replace the sealed lead-acid battery, which is a very common type that can be purchased from a multitude of vendors for $15-$17US...

I have one here that I just picked up at a thrift store for $10.00, and according to the built in diagnostics, the battery is good.

I just brought it home and plugged it directly into the MIO (it has the right connector on it), and it powers the MIO just fine, with or without AC power.

It has built in battery diagnostics/health/level monitoring, and an audible alarm that sounds when power fails. Theres a switch right on the front to permanently disable the alarm, which is a GREAT feature, if you have intermittant power service.

[Almost Rice]

I saw many in the past few months. Should I have picked them up? One was brand new in box too. I think it was originally supplied with some DSL modem.

[MEtalGuy66]

Yep they were provided as part of AT&T U-Verse equipment.. I checked with my brother who works for AT&T, and if you buy it from them, it's like $279.00 to replace it! hahah. What a ripoff.. for a $15.00 lead-acid battery and a small power management PCB in a plastic case..

Belkin sells it direct to the public for $129.00 (Still a ripoff) but its interesting that AT&T considers $150.00 to be a "fair markup" on a $129.00 retail piece of equipment.

[orpheuswaking]

My Girlfriends parents have the Uverse setup (I do too but you only get the UPS if you have the phone service I believe) and sure enough I went in their garage last night and this was staring back at me... Might have to rip it off the wall and sell it to a MIO owner

[sloopy]

orpheuswaking, on Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:06 PM, said:

My Girlfriends parents have the Uverse setup (I do too but you only get the UPS if you have the phone service I believe) and sure enough I went in their garage last night and this was staring back at me... Might have to rip it off the wall and sell it to a MIO owner

i will give you $5 for it... $30 if you get of video of you ripping it off while the in-laws are watching you! :'D


sloopy.

[orpheuswaking]

Heh, I was looking it over last night, most Uverse installs are only Fibre to the Node, not Fibre to the Premises. So I was looking to see if they were running over copper, or if they were total Fiber.

Sadly my house is still over copper

[russg]

MEtalGuy66, on Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:12 PM, said:

I have had many people ask me if theres any way to make the MIO's on-board RAM nonvolatile. One popular use for the MIO's onboard memory has alwayse been to store often accessed files, config data, often loaded executables, etc. In a BBS scenario, this can make the board substantially faster, while reducing wear & tear on physical drives. Only problem is that if power fails, you loose it.

Here is a UPS that I found that is perfect for the MIO. It's made to provide backup power to residential internet gateways, routers, and IP telephony equipment.

http://www.belkin.com/gatewaybattery/

http://en-us-support...ct/detail/p/667

YOu can pick them up relatively cheap on Ebay or Amazon. It plugs directly into the MIO, and takes the place of the "power brick" you would normally use.

It has a trap-door in the back to easily replace the sealed lead-acid battery, which is a very common type that can be purchased from a multitude of vendors for $15-$17US...

I have one here that I just picked up at a thrift store for $10.00, and according to the built in diagnostics, the battery is good.

I just brought it home and plugged it directly into the MIO (it has the right connector on it), and it powers the MIO just fine, with or without AC power.

It has built in battery diagnostics/health/level monitoring, and an audible alarm that sounds when power fails. Theres a switch right on the front to permanently disable the alarm, which is a GREAT feature, if you have intermittant power service.

I ran a BBS with a MIO and about four floppy drives, no hard drive. I had it set up so if there was a power outage, the BBS would boot right back up when power was restored. I used SpartaDOS batch files and maybe some Fast Fingers files. (Fast fingers was a program that you made a text file and it would type anything you wanted when it was run) I remember using MIOGET and BSWAP and a large STARTUP.BAT. This was 1988, before much UPS.