Solve : Protect the pc from harmful electrical spikes?

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Answer» Does any one have a suggestion on a good battery backup/voltage regulator? NAMES are all I am looking for, something dependable, reliable, and cost effective.go to any electronics store and buy a surge protectorHe wants a UPS as well. Have a look here:http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/search.do?No=0&N=5%209190&Ne=100 Depending upon if you have add-on stuff to your rig like: External HD, Speakers, Another Monitor, and such you might want it to increase the Joules rating and the number of Plugs, plus the # of Hours of Battery Backup. APC is one of the more reliable Co.'s for UPS's...Link APC on newegg.comA good UPS will have surge protection built in... Never use a separate surge protector with a UPS.When viewing specs you want a "Sine wave" output. Some labellers try to confuse the issue in their cheap UPS's by labelling them, "pure square wave"- which is the WORST you can GET!Quote "pure square wave" He He...how do you create one of those ? ? HADRON Collider perhaps ? ? no, its actually quite easy. get a O-scope and connect it to your TV remote Quote Never use a separate surge protector with a UPS. Why not, please? It would just seem to be another level of protection... I have to ask, because an inherent danger or problem doesn't jump out at me.Quote from: Aegis on March 27, 2009, 11:57:19 AM Why not, please? It would just seem to be another level of protection... I have to ask, because an inherent danger or problem doesn't jump out at me. Basically, it boils down to the fact that a surge supressor fixes up voltage spikes and deviations from the standard AC sine wave. of course- a no UPS gives true sine wave, and most of them are stairstepped. So basically it is simply hard on the Supressor, and will likely cause it to fail earlier conditioning the percieved "bad output" from the UPS; much as it would be a PITA trying to redraw a blockly sine graph on paper with a pure sine wave. to add to this, when a Supressor "fixes" the power, it generally uses the ground, which just so happens to be going back to the UPS. (of course the UPS likely just connects this to it's own ground, but it's another POINT of failure). Short story is- it basically destroys the supressors- well, supression. My thought was to go from the wall A/C outlet, plug in a surge supressor power strip, and then plug a UPS into the surge suppressor strip. My thought was that the surge suppressor can "look" at the A/C power out of the outlet. Since, as far as I'm aware, the suppressor doesn't do anything else to the power, it will pass the power to the UPS, and the UPS can do its thing... I can UNDERSTAND where the UPS would damage the suppressor over time if the UPS was between the source A/C and the surge suppressor.i had to get a surge protecter after a storm ( electric surge ) blow my mother board

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Does any one have a suggestion on a good battery backup/voltage regulator? NAMES are all I am looking for, something dependable, reliable, and cost effective.go to any electronics store and buy a surge protectorHe wants a UPS as well.

Have a look here:http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/search.do?No=0&N=5%209190&Ne=100

Depending upon if you have add-on stuff to your rig like: External HD, Speakers, Another Monitor, and such you might want it to increase the Joules rating and the number of Plugs, plus the # of Hours of Battery Backup.
APC is one of the more reliable Co.'s for UPS's...Link APC on newegg.comA good UPS will have surge protection built in...

Never use a separate surge protector with a UPS.When viewing specs you want a "Sine wave" output. Some labellers try to confuse the issue in their cheap UPS's by labelling them, "pure square wave"- which is the WORST you can GET!Quote

"pure square wave"

He He...how do you create one of those ? ?

HADRON Collider perhaps ? ?
no, its actually quite easy.

get a O-scope and connect it to your TV remote Quote

Never use a separate surge protector with a UPS.

Why not, please? It would just seem to be another level of protection...
I have to ask, because an inherent danger or problem doesn't jump out at me.Quote from: Aegis on March 27, 2009, 11:57:19 AM

Why not, please? It would just seem to be another level of protection...
I have to ask, because an inherent danger or problem doesn't jump out at me.

Basically, it boils down to the fact that a surge supressor fixes up voltage spikes and deviations from the standard AC sine wave.

of course- a no UPS gives true sine wave, and most of them are stairstepped. So basically it is simply hard on the Supressor, and will likely cause it to fail earlier conditioning the percieved "bad output" from the UPS; much as it would be a PITA trying to redraw a blockly sine graph on paper with a pure sine wave.

to add to this, when a Supressor "fixes" the power, it generally uses the ground, which just so happens to be going back to the UPS. (of course the UPS likely just connects this to it's own ground, but it's another POINT of failure).

Short story is- it basically destroys the supressors- well, supression.

My thought was to go from the wall A/C outlet, plug in a surge supressor power strip, and then plug a UPS into the surge suppressor strip. My thought was that the surge suppressor can "look" at the A/C power out of the outlet. Since, as far as I'm aware, the suppressor doesn't do anything else to the power, it will pass the power to the UPS, and the UPS can do its thing...

I can UNDERSTAND where the UPS would damage the suppressor over time if the UPS was between the source A/C and the surge suppressor.i had to get a surge protecter after a storm ( electric surge ) blow my mother board

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