Re: (PM) OFF TOPIC - APC

Rick Krug (rick@tcccom.net)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 21:44:49 -0500 (CDT)

And whatever you do, don't post a confession on a mailing list ;)

On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 98 21:05:33 -0000
> From: Mia's Virtual Post Office <list@mia.net>
> To: Don Lashier <dl@newportnet.com>, portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: (PM) OFF TOPIC - APC
>
> Don Lashier said on 6/22/98 11:41 PM
>
> >On 6/22/98, at 6:57 PM, Scott Rothgaber wrote:
> >>During a recent call to APC TS, it came out that I have a "dumb"
> >>power strip plugged into my SU1400RM (I have more than 6 things to
> >>plug into it, mostly low-draw stuff and socket-consuming power
> >>bricks). The tech said that even though the load is at 20%, this
> >>voids the APC $25,000 protection policy as only items actually
> >>plugged into the unit are covered.
> >>
> >>Am I the only numbskull that's doing this? Are you supposed to have a
> >>small fleet of 250's or what? I'm just wondering what the rest of you
> >>law-abiding citizens are doing.
> >
> >keeping our mouths shut :)
>
> Duh... Yea, like I am going to tell them about it... They RMA'd an old
> 600 APC personal unit, you know the kind for ONE puter only. I had 12
> units plugged into it. It held up for a good 5minutes even with that
> load, which is enough for the occasional 30second outage. But anyway, 12
> puters on this little personal unit fried it, and they gave me a new one.
> Silence is the key!
> >
>
>
> Ameritech, Our Link To Disaster
>
> "On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first
> strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, and
> Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony." And Windows98 Crashed!
>
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