ups

[Michael Havens]

yeah... it does not protect you in lightening storms?

what caused me to buy it is I was just about to hit the enter key to
compile the second program for LFS when the power shut off for like half a
second.

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:39:53 -0400
> Michael Havens <bmike1 at 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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