> Alan Kim wrote: > > I believe we've had two power failures this year. Once was when I was > in front of the computer. I never expect the UPS to keep things running > for more then a few minutes to shut down.
We had a lot of small storms go through in middle to late June. They caused five or six outages. Our biggest problem has been a recent (10 days) of unseasonably hot weather. So, we are getting brownouts in our neighborhood. (old houses, old neighborhood with equally old electrical service) The returning power, and the spikes they create are probably my biggest fear. > However, I've been very lucky this hasn't happened while I was out of > the house. That's when things will backfire on me, no matter how robust > the capacity is on the UPS. We have not had any failures while I was using the computer. If I can get ten minutes of backup power, I am happy. For any number of reasons, I might not be sitting in front of the computer in any outage. And, we are talking about working in the dark. Belkin now has a automatic shutdown software that works on a Mac. It uses USB and works with OS 9.0.4 and higher. It only works with their UPS units though. I can't comment about its effectiveness, as I did not install it. > By the way, don't you also have a BackUPS 1000 ? Still haven't taken > advantage of the deal you mentioned. That APC 1100 PRO I got at the special clearance price is at the shop. It covers the iLamp, a cash register, a credit card machine and a phone. The electrical service in that part of the neighborhood is even worse than home. If I shut down the iMac, the big UPS allows me to continue doing business in an outage. We had emergency backup lighting installed too. I got really pissed when we had a three hour power outage the Friday before Christmas. Sorry to say that clearance pricing on the big APC units is history. We looked for some. We ended up buying two Belkin 1200VA units, one for the 600 and one for the 9600. A couple of small units will back up printers, scanners, etc. Nancy -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
