power supply

[Shawn Badger]

Most UPS are nothing more than surge surge suppressors that provide power
once the power feeding them falls out of  range. I would count the PC on the
UPS any different from the other 2 unless you have a true online UPS.

On Dec 5, 2007 11:53 PM, Charles Jones <charles.jones at 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.
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