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Default Check your HVAC surge protector -- fail reports

On 10/26/2015 8:49 AM, westom wrote:
On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 12:02:16 AM UTC-4, Muggles wrote:
I don't really expect the back-up to protect from a major lightning
strike. It's more to protect from power surges like when the wind is
blowing and the power goes off briefly and back on again.


Those are sags or blackouts - not surges. A UPS would provide temporary power so that a reboot need not happen.

A surge is a high voltage. Power outage or dimming is a low voltage - not a surge.


ok Thanks for the info.

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Maggie