Re: (PM) Re: OFF TOPIC - APC

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:17:23 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Scott Rothgaber wrote:

> > How about buying an APC power strip?
>
> Danger Will Robinson! Don't *EVER* do this!
>
> I found this out the hard way several years ago. The APC power strip
> is not "dumb," but has some semi-fancy internal circuitry. For some
> reason, it fights with the groomed output of a SU, and guess which
> piece wins... Mine actually melted!

I've been using APC strips hung off APC UPS's for a number of years with
no problems. That guy who put 12 PC's on a Back-UPS 600...that's insane.

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