ups

[Keith Smith]

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 at 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 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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