After plenty of exploring Jesse's suggestion of a "powercleaner", I have come to the conclusion that the industrial term for a "powercleaner" is most likely a "power line conditioner." Those devices will compensate for both power surges and power-sags and possibly perform some cleaning. Some modules available from APC are of 600VA and 1200VA:
http://www.apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=LE1200 http://www.apcc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=LE600 What I understand is that these devices take care of both "brownouts" and "surges" by taking input 85V - 140V and transforming it to 120V. That would go a long way to stabilizing the power delivered to computer equipment and external components. Hope this will take care of the D-Link firewall devices dying. Hendrik Schaink Jesse Kline wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-11 at 16:21 -0700, Hendrik Schaink wrote: > >>Jesse, is a powercleaner the same as a good surge protector? Same as a >>lowly UPS? > > > No, they have surge protection functionality, but also clean the power. > I picked one up at Best Buy for about $50 iirc. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions & Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 "The Vision: We are the partners of choice for companies and organizations that share our commitment to creating a world that is truly wise, courageous, prosperous, innovative, inclusive, sustainable and humane." --Ruben Nelson GPG Fingerprint: 1371 0927 8C3C 831F A838 C312 68BC F5DB 010D F3D7 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
