[mythtv-users] Mobo recommendations
Patrick Ouellette
pat at flying-gecko.net
Wed Apr 11 19:14:27 UTC 2007
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:08:33AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> >>
> > That's a good point.... My house is old - built in 1954 - and has
> > been
> > "re-muddled" several times, often by owners. I've corrected some
> > of the
> > most egregious wiring errors but who knows what lurks in the walls.
>
> Hmmm. I wish you wouldn't refer to your house as "old", as I was
> "built" that same year.
>
> But I was really referring to your local power utility's
> infrastructure. Especially if you live in an area that has
> experienced a lot of growth, or even existing homes that now pull a
> lot more power than the 60 amps that used to be allocated to a single-
> family house, you could have problems long before the electrons enter
> your "old" home.
>
> >
> > That might even fit with the time; if people come home around 5 or 6PM
> > power usage goes up and voltage might drop....
> >
> > I've always wanted a kill-a-watt; now maybe the time to get it. :-)
>
You could try sticking an intelligent UPS on the system. My cheap APC
will let me capture line voltage to a log file over time. Heck, a
decent UPS would solve any voltage sage issues (provided it was a
boost/buck continuous unit).
Pat
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