Dear Anne, While the best UPS (or SPS) may not prevent a direct lightning hit from grounding you (so to speak), all the good companies do provide a lifetime warranty on the insurance part (not the batteries). Make sure you don't plug your multioutlet strips into the battery backed up plugs (some are only surge protected) on the backup as doing so could put too much of a drain on the batteries and in the event of an outage, you might get no backup time whatsoever. Many surge protectors these days offer the wider distance between where transformers/larger plugs go in. Also please remember that you can just as easily get zapped through the telephone line as the electrical one.
I personally never unplug unless I'm going out of town and even then, will still normally only turn off. There are surge protectors and battery backups all around my house though. Sorry this doesn't answer your question but it did get me thinking, which might be a dangerous thing. Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:53:32 -0400 Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> writes: > Marta, > > I think we are in the age of the wireless computer set up! > > I haven't figured out any way to reduce the number the number of > snakes > or neaten up the mess they make. > > I had hope when I got my last computers with an Airport, that I was > > going to be wireless! In fact I started out with a wireless > printer, > but after two of them refused to work, I got one that attaches with > a > cable to my computer. > > I do label each snake because I can't tell when I am under the table > > what I am about to unplug. I have one printer, a scanner, two > computers, a USB hub, an Airport, three multi-outlet surge bars > (necessary to get the others to plug into an electrical outlet (of > which there are on;t two near my desk and the bricks on four of the > > power cords just don't fit side-by-side), an UPS (and sometimes a > Wacom tablet or an external hard drive (backup), or a card reader). > Oh, > and also a "cordless" telephone along with it's cord from the phone > > jack and to the Airport (I think). Needless to say, I am in no hurry > to > buy a new computer and have to make new connections. > > I have the above set so that when I am worried about an electrical > storm, I just have to get down on my knees and crawl under the desk > to > turn off the UPS and pull two cords out of the wall sockets. And > also > after I get backup, pull the phone cord from the wall jack. > > If you or anyone knows of a better way, please let me know. > > Anne > > > On Tuesday, August 16, 2005, at 10:07 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > > > To all those who gave their input when I asked about a label > printer > > :May ye know that I installed my Dymo 400 and am playing with a > new > > toy! Thanks for the help. Now a new one: What do you all do with > all > > those tangled up snakes behind your computer? Is there any way at > all > > to minimize this enormous pile of never ending cords? ( 2 printers, > a > > palm pilot, an iPod, a scanner, and now this new thing. I also > need a > > larger hub. right now I need to unplug one USB when I need to > connect > > my camera. There is also an airport and then this router as well > as a > > surge protector. I need an architect to design a structure in > which > > or behind which I can hide this sammelsurium of entangled worms. > > > > > > Marta Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
