[Gllug] UPS & line filtering

[Alain Williams]

I have just been round to a customer of mine to replace a 13amp fuse ...
Their lights/... dimmed and all the PCs died, the only one that didn't
come back was the main Linux server.

They are on a light industrial estate (arc welding kit & stuff is close by).

A UPS will protect from brown outs & short term power failures, but
may not against power spikes.

Question:

What UPS would you use for protection against this sort of problem ?
It would be nice if it could talk to the Linux server so that it would
power off if the supply didn't come back after, say, 1 minute.

I notice that shops have power cable extensions (gang of 6 blocks) that claim
to protect against spikes - any one any experience/knowledge of these ?

TIA

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/

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