On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 10:41, KURT BRENDGARD wrote:
> ouch. well i will have to defer to your experience
> then, i have never been to california lol
> or lower it if its
> a low voltage type. the computers power supply does
> filter a lot of this out, but if it caught all of it,
> we wouldnt need surge protectors and battry back ups.
>
Metal-Oxide-Varisters MOVs are the sacrificial surge suppressors most
often provided as surge suppressors in power strips. They clip off the
overvoltage spikes.
If I remember correctly, the Salvation Army site is in Palmer.
Matanuska Electric now installs meters w/ pretty healthy MOVs to protect
the meter's electronics. At least for single phase 120/240V residential
services, it looks like it should be rather nice.
Low voltage is usually what causes computer resets.
MOVs don't store energy to pull through dips.
Old S-100 bus CompuPro CP/M box had transformer rectifier supply with
honkin-big capacitors to feed stored energy into the "ferro-resonant"
transformer. Mine once lasted through a dip that killed the fluorescent
lighting, blanked the ASCII terminal, and started unwinding the 8"
floppy drives. System pulled through :-))
> granted, im not an electrical engineer, (i can barely
> spell elllllectizity ;) )but this is what ive been
> told by the experts. if im wrong, somebody please tell
> me. hey stanley, am i off my rocker in this? your the
> electrical genious of the group, what you say? im
> curious now lol.
>
> kurt
>
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