John Richard Smith wrote: > > This may sound a simple question but what if anything can computer > owners do, that doesn't cost an arm and a leg , to protect their > equipement from bad weather.
john, all of replies you have had are on mark as to what you can and should do to protect yourself and your equipment from power outages and surges. as an addition, i would like to say that bad weather is not all that can knock your systems down. a surge, increase or decrease in voltage can be cause by various other conditions. some drunk or other careless driver hitting a utility pole and breaking service lines, or hitting an above ground transformer to an underground service. a factory running a max load and suddenly releasing load, just to name a few. in most ups and line conditioners, spikes and over voltages are suppressed by what are called mov's, metal oxide varistors. mov's are good, but they have a fault in that the more they squelch spikes and surges, the less effective they become until they do not work at all and need to be replaced. therefore, cyoa, cover your own ass. get a system that uses sasd, silicon avalanche suppressor diodes. sasd's do not degrade over time. here in u.s.a., a company named 'transtector', http://www.transtector.com/ makes such devices. check their site. you will be glad you did. i use them along with my 2 apc ups. i have a sasd at electrical mains service panel and 1 for telco line at entry. i have also installed systems for 6 clients and all are glad i did. 2 still send me emails when ever electrical storms pass thru town. btw. this message may dupe. having trouble with isp. second send. peace out, rocky. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email, text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy "made in america".
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