"TheOldFellow" wrote in message
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United Utilities are going to do some work here next week and plan
to
replace my mains with a generator for a day. Rather good of them I
thought, last time they just cut me off. My suspicion is that this
might last longer than expected, hence the generator.

The question is, though, do I keep my computers on (websites,
mailserver
etc)? My suspicion is that the generator is likely to be much more
spiky and I don't trust surge protection after the recent thread.

Does anyone have any experience?

R.

Some years back a workman put a JCB through the main feed into the
Industrial Estate that I had a unit on. This put our call centre out
of business which comprised 6 girls using PCs and various bits of
communications kit, telephone exchange, photocopier etc. To restore a
very basic service I hopped home and got out my 2.2KW markon petrol
genny. Bringing things back on one by one I was amazed to be able to
run the entire call centre all day with no ill effects whatsoever off
what was a VERY unsophisticated genny. At least it kept the 70 or so
field engineers on the road !

AWEM