Re: line conditioner

"philo" <philo privacy.net> wrote:

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>>> well they will not protect against a power failure...
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>> If I lived in an area with frequent blackouts, that would matter.
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> You only need a power glitch of 1/60 th of a second to crash your
> machine...it's pretty common where i live.

That data (probably a rough approximation) bothered me before buying
a line conditioner, but I got over it. And apparently blackouts of
short duration are uncommon where I live.

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> it's not considered a black-out as the light just blink... but it
> can sure cause a machine shut-down that a line-conditioner cannot
> handle.

A brownout is reduced voltage, not necessarily a complete outage.

A line conditioner is not a 1/60th of a second UPS, it is a voltage
regulator.

I sure would like data for what the house current does and how the
line conditioner reacts. But oh well.

>
> well a UPS does not have to be too large as you can just put the
> computer itself on it and skip the printer and CRT

I was looking for robust but very short lived UPS support. I just
don't like the idea of fluctuations in house current messing with my
personal computer. The line conditioner is taking care of that
without using a battery.





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