Thanks for the valuable info. Interesting that you suggest putting surge suppressors in series though. I used to link surge suppressors that way, thinking it would provide additional levels of protection, but someone told me it was a bad practice to plug one surge suppressor into another. I never could understand the logic, but then I really don't understand electricity.
All I'm interested in, is protecting my new 20 " iMac G3 and other equipment from hardware damage due to problems with the electrical supply. So the extra expense of the "online" versions may not be necessary. Is that true?
I was looking at some refurbished APC units, that are listed at good prices on the APC website. There were so many models, I was having trouble deciding between them.Trying to make sense of the various specifications is overwhelming. It's all beyond my level of comprehension.
Maaki.
===================================== ---At 5:00 PM -0600 10/27/04, Philip Stortz wrote:---
the best thing to do is to have several levels of surge arrestors and noise filters (which some surge suppressers
include while others don't) in series (and keep the cords away from each other, if the computer cord runs close to the
cord for the first surge/noise filter it will pickup noise from that cable reducing the effectiveness of the filter).
a ups won't help with line quality unless it's an "online" ups which are much more expensive, normally the ups only
provides power during a brownout or power loss (an online ups always makes it's own a.c. from the batteries while
charging the batteries if there is still a.c. power from the power company, most ups systems just feed through the power
companies power, possibly adjusting the voltage, until there is a drastic brown out or power loss at which point they
turn on their dc/ac inverter and make a.c. power for your' computer).
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