"w_tom" wrote in message
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On Aug 13, 10:45 am, (Al Dykes) wrote:
Any name-brand UPS will have genuine surge protection. A power strip
will have, at most, MOV chips that handle spikes and little else.

Cite manufacuture specs that claim that protection. You cannot.
Entire protection circuit in a plug-in UPS is the same circuit inside
power strip protectors.

Keep on believing that crock. A UPS is way better than a power strip.


More embarrassing, a UPS protector circuit is often grossly
undersized even compared to power strips.

Again that is not even close to being true.
I have seen people try to place to many devices for a given UPS, but that is
not what you are saying above

UPS is to protect data from blackouts and brownouts.

That can be one function, another more important function for other people
is to keep the equipment running during blackouts and brownouts.



Once saved to
disk, then data needs no such protection. How robust is protection
inside computers? So robust that some of the dirtiest electricity -
from a UPS in battery backup mode

Unless you have a very cheap UPS, most power from a UPS during battery
operation is quite clean.