Questions about UPS+surge protector

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 02:42:43AM -0400, Taavi Burns wrote:
> I had dirty, bouncy, and spiky power out in Scarberia a few years ago.  
> It
> left my motherboard crippled (dead IDE1 channel, so I'm stuck with my HD
> and burner on the same channel!).
> 
> I recently then purchased a UPS with the spoils of purchasing Rogers 
> cable
> modem service via Future Shop (sure, I'll take $100 for service I'm 
> going
> to get anyway).  The only power outage that I recall having since 
> getting
> the UPS lasted over an hour and a half, so the UPS wasn't much use apart
> from properly shutting the equipment down after 20 minutes.  The 
> disturbing
> part is how often the UPS kicked in for under 1 second, at around 6am.  
> I
> don't know what someone's doing with the power grid in my building at 
> that
> hour almost every day, but I'm sure glad my machine's not feeling the 
> effects.

I believe most UPSs do a self test at regular intervals (perhaps every
24 hours).

Lennart Sorensen
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