On 30/04/2013 14:00, whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, April 29, 2013 6:40:23 PM UTC+1, Nightjar wrote:
On 29/04/2013 16:33, whisky-dave wrote:

...

That would be worrying, one could be playing an important game
just about to reach a new level and the power goes off !!!!!!...



That is the purpose of a UPS.

Now it would bypass the UPS as it would be direct to yuor computer,
it would be a chipmon the mother board. And as UPS are basically
inefficient the'y be the first to be switched off if teh tech was
available.

With an "online" UPS then computer would be running from the inverter
all the time, and never see the grid frequency.


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Cheers,

John.

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