[Gllug] UPS & line filtering

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:23:28AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> "Martin A. Brooks" writes:
> 
> >They basically work.  But by  "protect" they usually mean "cut the power 
> >faster than a conventional fuse would".
> 
> Some do, some don't. The ones I have basically clean the supply, filtering
> out any spikes. If the threshold of what they can successfully filter is
> exceeded, then yes, they cut the power. But that's better than having your
> computer damanged...

So you are suggesting that I plyg the spike filter into the wall, the UPS into
the spike filter & the computer into the UPS ?

I assume that the spike filter will reset shortly after the spike that made it
cut out ?

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