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Topic: Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment
Posted by: Richard Greenhough
Date/Time: 07/01/16 10:41:00

I have had a couple of ansaphones wrecked by power outages in the past (I suspect it was less the outage than the on-off-on-off which preceded it), but have tended to see them as an Act of God - such as when a tree branch hits the power cables and shorts them out.

It sounds more probable that your equipment has been damaged by a spike in supply rather than the power cut itself, and you can fit anti-spike sockets (which can be simple plug-ins) to protect sensitive kit. I would expect Maplins to stock them.

The only real way of protecting your electronics from a power outage would be to install some sort of UPS (uninterrupted power supply) system, as many offices do.


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 10:24:00 Chris Blackwell
   Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 10:41:00 Richard Greenhough
   Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 10:42:00 Richard Jennings
   Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 10:44:00 Christopher Bell
      Re:Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 11:33:00 Christopher Bell
         Re:Re:Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 13:43:00 Chris Blackwell
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 14:29:00 Julian Pavey
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 14:40:00 Julian Pavey
   Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 16:34:00 Huw Burford-Taylor
      Re:Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 17:02:00 Susan Kelly
   Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment07/01/16 19:02:00 Michael Adams
      Re:Re:Power cut - damaged electrical equipment09/01/16 10:59:00 Tony Wood

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