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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: How do Macs respond to drops in voltage ?
Message-ID: <430094@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 89 00:14:24 GMT
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Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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I operated my Mac during a dark & stormy night that had repeated light
dimmings until I came to my senses and shut down realzing the size of
the spikes that could come down the line as a result of lightning. But 
during the hour or so I had it running while the lights were flickering,
The Mac performed flawlessly. Where I kept running into problems was feet
kicking the power cord disconnecting power. I picked up a $<400 uninteruptable
power supply & have felt good ever since. Right after I got it, I pulled
the plug a couple of times to make sure this new fangled thing would work,
And low & behold it did!!

Protection? It seems anything has surge protection. My power goes through
a surge protected uninteruptable power supply, then through a surge protected
switch box, then through the surge protection in the external cooling fan,
then through the surge protection that Apple built into the Mac.

What me worry?? Not when I have an uninteruptable power supply, 4 series 
connected surge protectors, and a turn of the century Aladin student kerosine 
lamp sitting next to my Mac to illuminate the keyboard!!

TeriAnn