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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!concert!glv!brownfield!jbrow
- From: brownfield!jbrow (Jim Brownfield)
- Subject: Re: Surge Supressor - not needed on NeXTs?!!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.234230.6422@brownfield.glv.com>
- Sender: jbrow@brownfield.glv.com
- Reply-To: <jbrow@glv.com>
- Organization: Encompass
- References: <1992Aug25.110400.3300@ITcorp.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:42:30 GMT
- Lines: 29
-
- In article <1992Aug25.110400.3300@ITcorp.com> geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
- writes:
- > In article <1992Aug16.035238.222@parsec.mixcom.com> alberto@parsec.uucp
- writes:
- >
- > > This is weird, but anyhow:
- > >
- > > Tip #13 (ominous number!) on the latest and greatest NeXTWorld:
- > >
- > > Save your money; Don't buy surge suppresors
- > > for your NeXT. They are built in.
- >
- > Hmmm. I had a tree rubbing my power line for a while; it caused
- > occasional very brief glitches. After two or three I called the power
- > company, who found the tree and fixed it. But after that the SCSI
- > chip on my '030 board wouldn't pass diagnostics. It worked fine, just
- > flunked the powerup test. I bought a surge protector that week.
- >
- > A surge protector is cheap. NeXTs (at least cubes) are *not* immune
- > to unusual power events.
- > --
- > Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com uunet!desint!geoff
-
- I put a line conditioner (Tripp Lite LC1200) on my NeXT cube (after the 7.5
- earthquake, when I woke up scrambling to shut off my cube). Before I bought
- the conditioner, I would occasionally get screen jitters during certain times
- of the day. But everything's great now. I recommend using a conditioner.
-
- Jim Brownfield
-