On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:14:31 +0000, Ted MacNEIL wrote:

>>found a cleaning crew had unplugged the main router and plugged in their 
>>vacuum cleaner and was cleaning the floors
>
>Ours (circa 1981) had plugged a vacuum cleaner into the CE service outlet on a 
>DASD C/U. Lots of equipment checks and a major 7/24* IMS application crash. 
>Plus recovery time.
> 
Are the similar outlets overload- and surge-protected nowadays?
Electric motors can generate some nasty transients.  Safest to put
the auxiliary outlet on a separate circuit, even bypassing UPS.

-- gil

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