RE: Since my UPS died...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unless your old UPS was a double conversion or line interactive type
then
the UPS itself would have been doing nothing with your mains supply (apart
from keeping its own batteries topped up) unless it dropped out so any
spikes and glitches would generally get through unaffected.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mark McCall
> Sent: 04 June 2007 11:56
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Since my UPS died...
>
> My aging rack-mount UPS died several months ago and I've never
replaced
> it.
> In the last 5 weeks I've had the following die...
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> 1. 300gig hard drive in the Jukebox (Was old and maybe un-related)
> 2. Rackmount 24 port switch
> 3. Vigor Router
> 4. TiVo (wasn't on UPS)
> Then yeserday after a short power cut (3 seconds or so) I lost number
> five..
> 5.Racknount Jukebox PC PSU
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> I wont know what other damage is done until I replace the PSU and see
> if it
> fires up.
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> This all seems like too much of a coincidence.  Can our electricity
> supply
> really be screwing all this stuff?  Maybe we've had a nearby lightning
> strike again that's come in on the mains but not noticed any storms
> tbh.
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> :(
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> M.
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