(I think I'm exceeding my alloted number of posts tonight...) Anne, The potential harm in doing what you do is that you can exceed the volt/amps rating of the battery unit (SPS or UPS) and get no backup time at all if too much is plugged in. Some units have surge protected only outlets, which would be fine though. I'm referring to the battery backedup ports though. The $40 APC battery units mentioned earlier tonight should not be for high end systems with large monitors. Watch out for watts and volts/amps. All the batteries have them as ratings and even though it's complicated to see how large of one you need, there are some good ballparks when it comes to the speed of the computer, size of the monitor and anything else plugged in. One last recommendation; never plug in a laser printer to a battery backup's battery port.
Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! --- Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> wrote: Jeff, I have a multi-outlet strip surge bar plugged into my USP, since I need more outlets than the USP has. And it has saved me during a number of unexplained short power failures we've had. I do backup and I assume my insurance would pay for replacements, but in addition to the premiums going up, I'd have to work to get my computers back the way I want them. But then again a G5 as a replacement would be a big gain in speed. Anne On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 10:17 PM, Jeff @ SLYN Systems wrote: > Anne, > You're right that a surge can't physically protect against a direct > lightning hit BUT: > 1. You can then have your hardware fixed or replaced for free under a > good unit's insurance protection (nope, doesn't help with data) > 2. My house was hit years ago, I lost garage door opener, light bulb > blew, phone/recorder in the kitchen fried, etc. but none of 2 PCs & 1 > Mac were affected. > FWIW... > By the way, I don't recommend plugging a surge protector into a > battery backup. There's no benefit of double protection like that, > the way I understand it. Plugging a multioutlet strip into a surge > though is a different story. > > Jeff Slyn, Owner > SLYN Systems & Peripherals > (502) 426-5469 > serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985 ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
