<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I just pitched one of these this last summer.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Keith Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2015-10-11 21:54, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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you have 12 year old computers?<br>
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No those computers are long gone. The event was 13 or 14 years ago. My oldest box, which is not used, is a 2005 Dell with a celeron cpu 1.25G RAM (upgraded from 256M)and a 40G IDE HD. Old iron....<br>
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I like to replace at 5 or 6 years.<br>
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Keith Smith<br>
<<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I've been using isobar since about 1993. I believe that is why I<br>
have not had any equipment failure. 13 or 14 years ago the<br>
transformer attached to where I was living exploded. I was sure it<br>
cooked my computer. Nothing happened to my computer.<br>
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Of course it is not going to keep your computer running when the<br>
power goes out.<br>
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On 2015-10-11 16:11, Steve Litt wrote:<br>
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:39:53 -0400<br>
Michael Havens <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I finally broke down and bought a UPS:( I got a 650 VA for $57. The<br>
550 VA was $55 so I figured it was worth the 2 extra dollars. Now I<br>
don't have to worry about frying my computer during one of the many<br>
lightening storms here in gainesville!<br>
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That's a great price!<br>
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The benefit of a UPS isn't preventing frying in a lightning storm.<br>
A<br>
simple surge protector does a better job of that. A UPS prevents<br>
your<br>
computer frying during a brownout or severel rapid transitions<br>
between<br>
power and no power. It also gives you a reasonable timeframe to<br>
perform<br>
an orderly shutdown, and in cases of > 1minute power outages, which<br>
describes over half of our power outages here in Seminole County<br>
Florida, you just keep computing.<br>
<br>
Another great thing about a UPS is when your printer starts up and<br>
all<br>
the lights dim and your ceiling fan slows down, (Brother MFC8810dw<br>
prints suck *a lot* of current), you hear your UPS click, but<br>
otherwise<br>
there's no sign of the undervolt. I hate to thing what would happen<br>
to<br>
my box if I didn't have a UPS.<br>
<br>
I wouldn't be caught dead without a UPS on my daily driver or my<br>
whole-house pfSense router/firewall.<br>
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SteveT<br>
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