On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Keith Smith <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

On 2015-10-11 21:54, Michael Havens wrote:

you have 12 year old computers?

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....

I like to replace at 5 or 6 years.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:32 AM, Keith Smith
<techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

I've been using isobar since about 1993. I believe that is why I
have not had any equipment failure. 13 or 14 years ago the
transformer attached to where I was living exploded. I was sure it
cooked my computer. Nothing happened to my computer.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=isobar&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=84109345576&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6200554956233029823&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_2hv0pgf2to_b_p2

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Of course it is not going to keep your computer running when the
power goes out.

On 2015-10-11 16:11, Steve Litt wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:39:53 -0400
Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I finally broke down and bought a UPS:( I got a 650 VA for $57. The
550 VA was $55 so I figured it was worth the 2 extra dollars. Now I
don't have to worry about frying my computer during one of the many
lightening storms here in gainesville!

That's a great price!

The benefit of a UPS isn't preventing frying in a lightning storm.
A
simple surge protector does a better job of that. A UPS prevents
your
computer frying during a brownout or severel rapid transitions
between
power and no power. It also gives you a reasonable timeframe to
perform
an orderly shutdown, and in cases of > 1minute power outages, which
describes over half of our power outages here in Seminole County
Florida, you just keep computing.

Another great thing about a UPS is when your printer starts up and
all
the lights dim and your ceiling fan slows down, (Brother MFC8810dw
prints suck *a lot* of current), you hear your UPS click, but
otherwise
there's no sign of the undervolt. I hate to thing what would happen
to
my box if I didn't have a UPS.

I wouldn't be caught dead without a UPS on my daily driver or my
whole-house pfSense router/firewall.

SteveT

Steve Litt
October 2015 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times

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