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To: Boplicity who wrote (55435)7/31/1998 1:24:00 AM
From: Eric Ridley  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 176387
 
Greg-

Not a surge suppressor. Stop buying Dell, stop running your store, right now and go buy a UPS (uninterruptible power supply). A UPS uses incoming electricity to charge a battery, and converts the power from the battery back into AC to run the computer. It does two things:

Smoothes out microfluctuations in your municipal power supply which degrade and eventually eat your computer alive, as well as major spikes which can get past most surge suppressors.

more important, if power goes out, or, more likely, browns out, gives you a minute or two of spare power to shut down your machine in an orderly fashion.

DO NOT RELY ON A SURGE SUPPRESSOR ALONE.

Best,

ER



To: Boplicity who wrote (55435)7/31/1998 10:34:00 AM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 176387
 
Greg -
Here's another tip - don't turn your computer off if you can avoid it. The power sequencing as the computer comes up is one of the leading causes of component failure, in fact this power cycling is one of the ways vendors test - it's called failure acceleration through power stress. Not shutting off the power can triple the life of your box.


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