A basic surge protector uses a capacitor. Once the capacitor is at capacity it becomes a basic extension cord.
Charles Jones <charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote: I had 3 PCs running 24/7, one of them was on a UPS, and the other 2 had surge protectors. They all equally failed. I think the house just hated technology. :-)
Kevin Brown wrote:
Consider yourself lucky. At my old house, there was something funky
with the power, because I went through about 8 power supplies, even good
expensive ones. At the end I was buying cheapo $29 cases from Frys just
to get the power supply out of them (and then recycled the case).
My new house isn't quite as bad, but I've gone through 3 power supplies
here so far, including one that literally exploded and shot a cloud of
plasma-like fire out of it. Talk about an eye-opener at 3am :)
You would have been better off spending all that money on a line conditioner/surge protector. I have a line conditioner at my place and it occasionally indicates a spike or drop in the line voltage and corrects for it. Haven't lost a power supply yet that couldn't be anything other than the result of basic age. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list -
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