Ups

[multimick]

no not the delivery firm.
office has a 3 gang trailing socket powering a pc tower and 2 monitors .They say they are experiencing very short power cuts (less than a second) taking out the pc.Thinking of a UPS in front of trailing skt. Any ideas guys ? ring final checks etc are fine

 

[Octopus]

A UPS sounds a very good idea!

https://www.apc.com/tools/ups_selector/GB/en/

 

[Pete999]

Where I worked most workstations employed a UPs as part of the installation package

 

[telectrix]

Where I worked most workstations employed a UPs as part of the installation package

ups? for a commodore64?

 

[MisterE]

https://www.apc.com/tools/ups_selector/GB/en/

Good link, very useful.

If you do go for a UPS be aware of the differences with UPS's :-
"Offline" - (sometimes called "backup") only switches over to battery when it senses no supply, the better one's switch over quicker than cheepies.
"Line Interactive" - closely follows the input power and switches over quicker than "offline" a good compromise (I personally like the APC Smart UPS Range)
"Online" - equipment is running on a permanently smoothed supply - with no interruption at all when supply is lost - but expensive, normally used for servers and very expensive kit.

As always you need to check the manufacturers data and compare the tech. specs rather than the sales blurb.

 

[Pete999]

ups? for a commodore64?

Didn't realise a Commodore 64 was a workstation

 

[123]

no not the delivery firm.
office has a 3 gang trailing socket powering a pc tower and 2 monitors .They say they are experiencing very short power cuts (less than a second) taking out the pc.Thinking of a UPS in front of trailing skt. Any ideas guys ? ring final checks etc are fine

UPS unit would be a good addition. But I'd also be keen to find out why they are having these power cuts

 

[Pete999]

UPS unit would be a good addition. But I'd also be keen to find out why they are having these power cuts

Trailing leads would be a good place to start, people tripping on leads and re plugging before anyone notices?

 

[123]

Trailing leads would be a good place to start, people tripping on leads and re plugging before anyone notices?

Given the power cut is less than a second, are they employing someone to plug it back in straight away?

 

[shanky887614]

are they sure its the power and not the psu inside failing?

a pc transformer should be able to cope with V fluctuations

 

[pcam1984]

The APC units are good and decent prices, just installed a few of the smart 2200 units and replacement batteries are reasonably priced. I think Schneider have now taken over APC