There seems to be a re-occuring theme here, buy UPS and soon after your
main power supply goes bang. :-)
To back up this theory -
We had no UPSs on any equipment and our power went bang (actually the
3-phase joint into our building melted, fused and exploded) and miraculously
all our equipment survived. However, when power was restored the electric
company 'tested' the lines by dropping and raising power and promptly
fried our Portmaster (2ER) which need replacing.
The very next day I ordered 3 UPSs. A month later I ordered a big UPS
for a sparc - the next day a major sub-station (providing power for something
like a quarter of Northern Ireland) caught fire - no power! They re-routed
supplies but it ment that we had power on for 4 hours, off for 4 hours, etc
until it was fixed. most of the UPSs lasted throughout 2 x 4 hour outages
and the last outage was 2 hours.
You'll never regret a UPS.
For the guy who started the thread - print this and show it to your boss.
He'd be a fool run any half-way critical system without a UPS.
Paul Gregg
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