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From: martin@icsl.ucla.edu (Kenneth Martin/)
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Subject: Power Surges
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Date: 22 Apr 91 22:59:14 GMT
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Regarding power surges;  we had one here about two weeks ago that gave
a noticeable glitch in the lighting, and crashed some of our Sun servers,
but left the Sun Sparcs and my Next running as if nothing happened.  I
have also been running a Next at home, for quite a while, where there are
terrible surges every time the washer starts up (i.e. 40 year old wiring).
I have one of those el-cheapo multi plug-in panels that say they have surge
protectors.  Despite numerous very-visible surges, I have never had any
problems with the next, which I leave on all the time.  Thus, from my
experience, the Next is very robust with respect to power surges.
-Ken Martin (martin@icsl.ucla.edu)