On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > On 2017-08-31 08:47, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > 1) To protect my gear against power surges/spikes/drops > > 2) To protect against the rare occurence when power goes off for 1 > > or 2 seconds > > I do the same. Or at least I did until last week, when the UPS died > after more than a decade of perfect service. (Here, the outages are > longer than 2 seconds; it's not often, but is very annoying when it > happens, with the UPS square wave beeps.)
I just had a second look at your message. Did you say your UPS puts out ***SQUARE WAVES***? That is very bad for consumer grade electrical stuff. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
