I just pitched one of these this last summer.
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
>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
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>> [1]
>>
>> 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
>> [2] http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
>> [3] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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