Subj : Re: Need testers
To   : Tracker1
From : Darkytoo
Date : Wed Jun 15 2005 07:54 pm

  Re: Re: Need testers
  By: Tracker1 to Sniper on Wed Jun 15 2005 01:49 pm

 > Sniper wrote:
 > > UPS's are overated in this instance... Unless your a hub or such, your
 > > system will normally be up... just those few storms from time to time...
 > >
 > > My system is on a UPS, but, I'm a hub for a number of networks, but even
 > > that doesn't help all the time.
 > 
 > mine's on a UPS mainly because of spikes/surges etc, lights flicker... and
 > don't trust it.. really need to get another dedicated power circuit to this
 > room for the servers... of course, now that *really* has to wait...
 > 
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Just be careful, theres actually two types of power supplies, SPS and UPS. 
Most of the cheaper ones are actually switching power supplies, they only use
the battery when it detects a power outage and it then switches to battery
power in some really short length of time, but if power is fine then the
battery goes unused.  BUT, they still call it a UPS.  While the higher end
UPS's actually run off the batter full time.  These are best if you have
power issues as it's all filtered before it hits the actual computer.  I
think the best way to tell is if the UPS gets hot, chance is are it's a REAL
ups.  

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