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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Power Surge protection & Terminal use
Message-ID: <1491@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 04:27:05 GMT
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Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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There are several UPSes with serial ports (my cohorts recommend
the "Best" product line--USA customers can order these from UUNET).
The "problem" (of course) is that it takes over half the serial
ports on your machine.  :-(

UPSes aren't cheap... plan on spending $1000 or more on a decent
one.  If you don't need uninterruptable power, Tripp-Lite makes
some nice power conditioners (Elek-Tek in Illinois has great
mail-order prices--an 1800w model sells for around $200).  The
next level down is Tripp-Lite Isobars; I wouldn't bother with
anything less sophisticated.

We had a campus-wide power outage about a week ago; various
attempts to get generators started and more problems when the
"real" power came back fried a bunch of PC power supplies.
My department's NeXTs are all plugged into "paranoia" boxes,
and survived unscathed.  sutro.sfsu.edu isn't, and it didn't
come back to life... the cube itself was undamaged, but its
external SCSI disk blew its fuse, setting off a mad scramble
to find a replacement.

					-=EPS=-