On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ben Eisenbraun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 09:24:47AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: >> Anyone buying this device would do well to have paid-up life insurance: >> the company is selling a UPS, but they're also selling "cheater" cords >> that allow their UPS to power a "live" outlet with a double-male >> connection cord, and that's flat-out dangerous. > > It's not a UPS. You have to supply your own UPS to power their capture > unit. And it doesn't appear to power the outlet until after the mains > power is cut. That's the "Patent-pending technology" part I suppose.
My guess is that they basically have boxed up just the switching portion of a standby (offline) UPS. Not all systems like that kind of UPS. OTOH, many cheap UPS do it that way so it clearly works well enough for many uses. The videos where you go into the wall and clip wires or pull a plug partially out of a sock are potentially dangerous, but don't seem too bad as long as you are careful. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
