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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Subject: Re: Superstitions: power cycling, screen savers, surge suppressors
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:02:39 CST
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.220240.26262@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- References: <By3EGq.Ko6@world.std.com> <DNiPuB2w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
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- In article <DNiPuB2w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
- >dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith) writes:
- >
- >> Surge suppressors. Again, I have to wonder why the manufacturers don't
- >> design them in; it should be the responsibility of the computer's own
- >> power supply to handle this. And why should a PC need a surge suppressor,
- >> but not a CD player, a VCR, a video game machine, etc. all of which contain
- >> similar electronics?
- >
- >They all should.
-
- I make a lot of lab equipment around here, and more and more of it is
- becoming computerized. In those boxes, I use surge suppresors, and so do
- the people who do jobs similar to my own over in Physics. I do think it
- has a lot to do with it, though -- consumer goods are HIGHLY parts-cost
- minimized, whereas a lot of the lab equipment we do here is mostly custom
- work, so most of the cost is tied up in engineering time, and adding $5 to
- the actual cost of materials for the box doesn't add much to the total
- cost.
-