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i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of
the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any probl;ems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. thanks very much ia -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP HomeSP2, 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T |
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Dallas wrote:
i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Dallas wrote:
i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other
than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP HomeSP2, 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other
than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP HomeSP2, 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Dallas wrote:
i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. Shenan Stanley wrote: What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) Dallas wrote: thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours The purpose of consumer UPS is not to keep a home user up and going for long periods of time - but long enough to properly shut down. I was not implying you should have UPSes to keep things up - but because a UPS with AVR technology will provide your equipment with cleaner power and have a better response time to surges/brownouts than a plain surge protector (which is often nothing more than a mechanical device - a fuse - which prevents "too much" of the surge from getting to your equipment) - better protect your equipment from the unexpected outages. In other words - your equipment is better served with something like a UPS with AVR than cheap surge protection alone for unexpected outages and if you know power will be out and suddenly turned back on at some point - it's best to plan for that accordingly and unplug valuable devices so there is no danger of a surge at all to said equipment. Something not plugged into a wall outlet is 99.99999...% less likely affected by such things than something plugged into the wall outlet. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. Shenan Stanley wrote: What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) Dallas wrote: thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours The purpose of consumer UPS is not to keep a home user up and going for long periods of time - but long enough to properly shut down. I was not implying you should have UPSes to keep things up - but because a UPS with AVR technology will provide your equipment with cleaner power and have a better response time to surges/brownouts than a plain surge protector (which is often nothing more than a mechanical device - a fuse - which prevents "too much" of the surge from getting to your equipment) - better protect your equipment from the unexpected outages. In other words - your equipment is better served with something like a UPS with AVR than cheap surge protection alone for unexpected outages and if you know power will be out and suddenly turned back on at some point - it's best to plan for that accordingly and unplug valuable devices so there is no danger of a surge at all to said equipment. Something not plugged into a wall outlet is 99.99999...% less likely affected by such things than something plugged into the wall outlet. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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agaion thanks shenan so are you saying i should power down the pc, then
unplug the ups ? i have already done the other devices not pc related. sorry as i am kinds out of it -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP HomeSP2, 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T. I use these on a regular basis: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, Ad-Aware, Spybot, Spyware Blaster, SuperAntiSpyware, BitDefender & Ccleaner "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. Shenan Stanley wrote: What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) Dallas wrote: thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours The purpose of consumer UPS is not to keep a home user up and going for long periods of time - but long enough to properly shut down. I was not implying you should have UPSes to keep things up - but because a UPS with AVR technology will provide your equipment with cleaner power and have a better response time to surges/brownouts than a plain surge protector (which is often nothing more than a mechanical device - a fuse - which prevents "too much" of the surge from getting to your equipment) - better protect your equipment from the unexpected outages. In other words - your equipment is better served with something like a UPS with AVR than cheap surge protection alone for unexpected outages and if you know power will be out and suddenly turned back on at some point - it's best to plan for that accordingly and unplug valuable devices so there is no danger of a surge at all to said equipment. Something not plugged into a wall outlet is 99.99999...% less likely affected by such things than something plugged into the wall outlet. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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agaion thanks shenan so are you saying i should power down the pc, then
unplug the ups ? i have already done the other devices not pc related. sorry as i am kinds out of it -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP HomeSP2, 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T. I use these on a regular basis: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, Ad-Aware, Spybot, Spyware Blaster, SuperAntiSpyware, BitDefender & Ccleaner "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. Shenan Stanley wrote: What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) Dallas wrote: thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours The purpose of consumer UPS is not to keep a home user up and going for long periods of time - but long enough to properly shut down. I was not implying you should have UPSes to keep things up - but because a UPS with AVR technology will provide your equipment with cleaner power and have a better response time to surges/brownouts than a plain surge protector (which is often nothing more than a mechanical device - a fuse - which prevents "too much" of the surge from getting to your equipment) - better protect your equipment from the unexpected outages. In other words - your equipment is better served with something like a UPS with AVR than cheap surge protection alone for unexpected outages and if you know power will be out and suddenly turned back on at some point - it's best to plan for that accordingly and unplug valuable devices so there is no danger of a surge at all to said equipment. Something not plugged into a wall outlet is 99.99999...% less likely affected by such things than something plugged into the wall outlet. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Dallas wrote:
i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. Shenan Stanley wrote: What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) Dallas wrote: thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours Shenan Stanley wrote: The purpose of consumer UPS is not to keep a home user up and going for long periods of time - but long enough to properly shut down. I was not implying you should have UPSes to keep things up - but because a UPS with AVR technology will provide your equipment with cleaner power and have a better response time to surges/brownouts than a plain surge protector (which is often nothing more than a mechanical device - a fuse - which prevents "too much" of the surge from getting to your equipment) - better protect your equipment from the unexpected outages. In other words - your equipment is better served with something like a UPS with AVR than cheap surge protection alone for unexpected outages and if you know power will be out and suddenly turned back on at some point - it's best to plan for that accordingly and unplug valuable devices so there is no danger of a surge at all to said equipment. Something not plugged into a wall outlet is 99.99999...% less likely affected by such things than something plugged into the wall outlet. ;-) Dallas wrote: agaion thanks shenan so are you saying i should power down the pc, then unplug the ups ? i have already done the other devices not pc related. sorry as i am kinds out of it If I was in your position, I would power down the computer, unplug and turn off the UPS until the power was restored. I would do the same for any network devices connected to the computer (router, modem, etc) as I see no reason to chance their frying either. While some may argue that with today's modern power distribution systems, etc - you are fairly safe leaving it plugged in (and are likely correct) - there is certainly no one who could argue they are less safe from electrical surges powered down and unplugged. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. Shenan Stanley wrote: What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) Dallas wrote: thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours Shenan Stanley wrote: The purpose of consumer UPS is not to keep a home user up and going for long periods of time - but long enough to properly shut down. I was not implying you should have UPSes to keep things up - but because a UPS with AVR technology will provide your equipment with cleaner power and have a better response time to surges/brownouts than a plain surge protector (which is often nothing more than a mechanical device - a fuse - which prevents "too much" of the surge from getting to your equipment) - better protect your equipment from the unexpected outages. In other words - your equipment is better served with something like a UPS with AVR than cheap surge protection alone for unexpected outages and if you know power will be out and suddenly turned back on at some point - it's best to plan for that accordingly and unplug valuable devices so there is no danger of a surge at all to said equipment. Something not plugged into a wall outlet is 99.99999...% less likely affected by such things than something plugged into the wall outlet. ;-) Dallas wrote: agaion thanks shenan so are you saying i should power down the pc, then unplug the ups ? i have already done the other devices not pc related. sorry as i am kinds out of it If I was in your position, I would power down the computer, unplug and turn off the UPS until the power was restored. I would do the same for any network devices connected to the computer (router, modem, etc) as I see no reason to chance their frying either. While some may argue that with today's modern power distribution systems, etc - you are fairly safe leaving it plugged in (and are likely correct) - there is certainly no one who could argue they are less safe from electrical surges powered down and unplugged. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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great & thanks so much - sorry to have bothered you, but again, very much
appreciated. -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP HomeSP2, 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T. I use these on a regular basis: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, Ad-Aware, Spybot, Spyware Blaster, SuperAntiSpyware, BitDefender & Ccleaner "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. Shenan Stanley wrote: What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) Dallas wrote: thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours Shenan Stanley wrote: The purpose of consumer UPS is not to keep a home user up and going for long periods of time - but long enough to properly shut down. I was not implying you should have UPSes to keep things up - but because a UPS with AVR technology will provide your equipment with cleaner power and have a better response time to surges/brownouts than a plain surge protector (which is often nothing more than a mechanical device - a fuse - which prevents "too much" of the surge from getting to your equipment) - better protect your equipment from the unexpected outages. In other words - your equipment is better served with something like a UPS with AVR than cheap surge protection alone for unexpected outages and if you know power will be out and suddenly turned back on at some point - it's best to plan for that accordingly and unplug valuable devices so there is no danger of a surge at all to said equipment. Something not plugged into a wall outlet is 99.99999...% less likely affected by such things than something plugged into the wall outlet. ;-) Dallas wrote: agaion thanks shenan so are you saying i should power down the pc, then unplug the ups ? i have already done the other devices not pc related. sorry as i am kinds out of it If I was in your position, I would power down the computer, unplug and turn off the UPS until the power was restored. I would do the same for any network devices connected to the computer (router, modem, etc) as I see no reason to chance their frying either. While some may argue that with today's modern power distribution systems, etc - you are fairly safe leaving it plugged in (and are likely correct) - there is certainly no one who could argue they are less safe from electrical surges powered down and unplugged. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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great & thanks so much - sorry to have bothered you, but again, very much appreciated. -- Dallas..... Dell P 4, 3GHz, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 160 GB, Win XP HomeSP2, 16X DVD-ROM & ,6X DVD+/RW, IE7, OE6, DSL, via AT&T. I use these on a regular basis: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, Ad-Aware, Spybot, Spyware Blaster, SuperAntiSpyware, BitDefender & Ccleaner "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. Shenan Stanley wrote: What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) Dallas wrote: thanks so much shenan, but since i forgot, it's too late for the stuff other than the ups - i do have the ups hooked up, but i didn't think it would last for 7 hours Shenan Stanley wrote: The purpose of consumer UPS is not to keep a home user up and going for long periods of time - but long enough to properly shut down. I was not implying you should have UPSes to keep things up - but because a UPS with AVR technology will provide your equipment with cleaner power and have a better response time to surges/brownouts than a plain surge protector (which is often nothing more than a mechanical device - a fuse - which prevents "too much" of the surge from getting to your equipment) - better protect your equipment from the unexpected outages. In other words - your equipment is better served with something like a UPS with AVR than cheap surge protection alone for unexpected outages and if you know power will be out and suddenly turned back on at some point - it's best to plan for that accordingly and unplug valuable devices so there is no danger of a surge at all to said equipment. Something not plugged into a wall outlet is 99.99999...% less likely affected by such things than something plugged into the wall outlet. ;-) Dallas wrote: agaion thanks shenan so are you saying i should power down the pc, then unplug the ups ? i have already done the other devices not pc related. sorry as i am kinds out of it If I was in your position, I would power down the computer, unplug and turn off the UPS until the power was restored. I would do the same for any network devices connected to the computer (router, modem, etc) as I see no reason to chance their frying either. While some may argue that with today's modern power distribution systems, etc - you are fairly safe leaving it plugged in (and are likely correct) - there is certainly no one who could argue they are less safe from electrical surges powered down and unplugged. ;-) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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"Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html A UPS is a Uninterruptible Power System, I've never heard of a Universal Power Supply, please explain and supply a link to one. |
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"Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... Dallas wrote: i jusat rememberd, less than 2 hours away from edison doing maintenance of the neighborhood - power will be off from 10:00 5:00. now as long as the pc is off, are there any problems ahead ? i doubt it, but want to make sure. What? Since most are unlikely to live where you do... Anyway - whether or not you have surge protection (best would be a Universal Power Supply (UPS) with Auto Voltage Regulation (AVR) technology) for your electronics and/or home - my suggestion is to unplug from the wall any electronic equipment that is important to you and not plug it back in until you know the maintenance is over with and the power should stay consistent. Also - I would suggest getting a UPS with AVR technology for each of your sensitive/expensive electronic devices (Televisions, any computer equipment, etc). Some equipment may not be able to utilize the battery-backed up side - but those types of equipment should be fine plugged in elsewhere (some printers have trouble in this way.) -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html A UPS is a Uninterruptible Power System, I've never heard of a Universal Power Supply, please explain and supply a link to one. |
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