[mythtv-users] Power outages and UPSs

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:41:09PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> That sounds like a very real possibility.  Florida is, after all, the
> lightning capital of the US.  Though I almost always have power, I get a
> lot of spikes (with both the up and the down that follows--I've heard
> the down is usually worse on electronics).

And this is an excellent selling point for continuous UPSs, too; the
charger is a sacrificial lamb for incoming spikes, and if you have a
backup charger module offline, you can plug it in after.

I believe APC Symmetra's are built this way.

Cheers,
-- jra
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