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From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Power Supplies in Amigas
Summary: My Amy seems to survive well
Keywords: Spikes Surges and Leave it ON or OF
Message-ID: <157@teak.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 88 17:03:47 GMT
References: <4916@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: ericb@teak.UUCP (Eric Black)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <4916@well.UUCP> droid@well.UUCP (Marty Brenneis) writes:
>
>How many of you Amiga users out there leave your machines on all the time?

	Mine has been on 24 hours a day, every day, for nearly two years
	now, except for periods when I know I'm going to be away for
	more than 2-3 days at a time (total off time in 2 years ~= 4 weeks).

>Have you ever had any problems with power line glitches eating your machine? 

	Nope.  In fact, she is unfazed (not unphased, she likes 2-phase
	power) by power spikes and glitches that confuse the hell out
	of other electronics in the house.  I live out in the woods,
	and the power is DIRTY, as well as unreliable during the
	rainy season (Yo-Yo Mode, off for < 1/2 sec, then back on).
	Even the clock in the VCR, which has a big capacitor charged so
	it's almost "battery-backed-up" gets confused, but not Amy.

	Of course, any such dropouts or spikes actually DURING reading
	or writing a floppy gives me an error, but what do you expect?
	A retry usually takes care of it!

-- 
Eric Black	"Garbage in, Gospel out"
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