Hi Chip!
Bad news... you have power flickering, a surge supressor is USELESS. Diodes
on your surge protector are designed for instant peeks of current, and we
are talking of milliseconds here. So don't rely on this to protect your
equipment form the power flickering.
Good news: you can use a power regulator, instead. It is a kind of
transformer in 1:1 relation where you input 120 volts and you get 120 volts
in the output. What's special about that? Well, you have inductive forces
that always oppose to change. If power goes instantly up, then inductive
forces make an effect on the secondary winding of the transformer that try
to keep the voltaje as closer as 120 V in the output. A similar effect
happens when your input voltage goes down.
I've seen voltaje regulators for about $50 in computer stores.
-Manuel.
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De: Chip Rose. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Lunes, 27 de Diciembre de 1999 10:46 a.m.
Asunto: preventing data loss from power outage
>When the power flickers or goes out and the file system is not cleanly
>unmounted, I lose a lot of files and programs, etc. I have a good power
>surge protector. Upon reboot, it tries to repair itself, often
>requiring me to manually run fsck (I need to read up more on how to
>*properly* fsck..). Then, I wind up with a dysfunctional kde panel,
>many lost emails, files, and even entire programs I had just finished
>downloading get completely erased! If I had rebooted *prior* to the
>power outage, all the files would've been safe, and a forced reboot goes
>much easier. Question is - how do I manually do a "permanent"
>save/write of these files, *without* constant rebooting? Can I run a
>program to make it as if I had just rebooted?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chip Rose.
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