Re: Brownout damage?

[Geoffrey Loeffler]

	I agree, cheap insurance. Mine has a green light that 
flickers if their is any slightly unstable power and if it is a 
little above minor a chirp lets out. The lights in the house are 
fine, my portable TV runs fine but this thing can be chirping every 
few seconds. It really is amazing sometimes the number of short 
chirps or even 2 second long chirps it puts out for minutes or even 
of and on for hours, or not chirp for weeks.
	Makes you wonder how much damage is caused by items not 
protected, it has to make a difference. I know they build in a range 
of flux in these products  All the expensive important items I have 
are connected to APC UPS units cheap, cheap, insurance.
	The one even on my 6100 I bought in 1996 and it runs almost 
12/7, still runs fine on those occassions we have a power failure the 
computer, hard drives, burner, printer, modem all work fine, and 
allow allow a normal shutdown if you have a power failure.
	I wondered about the Powerbooks, if the internal battery 
would prevent a spike from hurting it. My guess, no.   Minds greater 
then mine, please respond off list if this is way to Ot.

At 15:42 -0500 12/14/2003, PaulKurtz III wrote:
I can't help on the data recovery, and it's a little late now, but I
recommend a simple $40 UPS to be sure this doesn't happen again.  I have
most of my electronics hooked up to APC UPSs and I couldn't be happier.



On 12/14/03 3:34 PM, "Bruce Godfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 Fellow 1st PowerMac'ers,

 > There have been a number of electrical disturbances in my
 > area recently.  They have been complete power failures, and
 > low-voltage episodes, "brownouts", where the lights dim for a while
 > and then come back up to normal intensity
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