On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Chad Perrin <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't consider the ability to stay up for a few minutes when there's a > brief blackout to be the most important function of a good UPS, even > though that's kinda the reason the things were invented in the first > place. The most important function of such a thing is power > conditioning, which eliminates the problems of spikes and brownouts in > the supply of power from the utility company even when nothing dramatic > enough happens to actually crash a running machine right away. Such > variability in power can be bad for both hardware and consistent, stable > running of software.
Hard to get unless you have several kilobucks to spend on an online type UPS, though. I actually had one I got surplus, several years back, but the constant inverter buzz got old fast in a home environment. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
