Dan, I might rewire this room in a year or so and then would do that. In the mean time I will not get lazy and just turn off the master power on the surge protector that I now use. Since I tend to like gadgets the smart strip intrigue me until I read some reviews. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] A Little mor on Smart Strips
So, I was thinking about these smart strips a little more. For me, one problem would be that I still use an external speech synth. The synth has a battery, on the Dec Express it is internal, on the MiniTransport it is easily removable. But, on the Dec Express, when the power is turned off at the powerstrip, the Dec continues to operate on the battery, so you would still have to turn it off separately from the computer. Secondly, rather than having a smart strip, could you simply have an outlet that is controlled by the light switch in the room, plug your regular stupid strip into that socket, then when you leave the room, and being a nice green person, you would of course, shut off the light, then the power to that outlet would be killed and all peripherals would die quietly. Wouldn't this achieve the same goal? -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
