UPSs

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 04:52 pm, David Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Not sure if any of you have had this happy experience.  Power in 3rd
> world countries (or at least Panama) is atrocious.
>
> Last nite at 0330 local, power went out (not an unusual occurrance
> here).  When it came back on at 0430, I lost 2 UPSs (blown up), two
> more had to be manually reset, lost a SCSI hard drive (wouldn't
> respond to start command), and more.
>
> Apart from buying a large motor and generator and isolating from the
> Electric disaster company down here via a steel shaft, anyone have
> experience combatting this nonsense?  All my main sites were down this
> a.m.  Lots of driving, reseting of gear, inventorying destroyed
> equipment, etc.
>
> As you can see, our mail server survived, but not by much.
>
> Suggestions (apart from starting my own power company too)?

One thing I did long  before UPS's were really available to the home was to 
build myself a 'drop out box'.   That is, if the power went out, I didn't 
want it coming back on to the computer, or on and off... jumping around, 
etc... you get the picture.   So if the power went off, this box was cut the 
power for good.   Now if you put one of these on the disaster side of a ups, 
the power would cut off to the ups for good and hopefully the UPS does a nice 
shutdown when needed.

Not sure that would be an answer but it might be.