Keith (Southend) wrote:
Les Crossan wrote:

An antisurge socket should be fine but put a small ups on your PC as
they clean up noisy mains, dropouts, power surges, etc really well.


-----mains-----anti surge plug-----UPS-----equipment

All I have hanging off mine is my main server and it's display monitor,
so I can shut it down gracefully before I run out of power but there's
nobody stopping you from adding more.

I've had it go off on me before in thunderstorms, it's generally not too
much grief on a workstation if it dies but i've got a couple of RAID
arrays that have to regenerate if it goes off disgracefully for any
reason. The last major ts we had here in August killed the psu and
motherboard and it took me the best part of a day to recover everything
after replacing these parts. A ups stops mains overvoltages and spikes
as well as undervolts and is good protection for a workstation
especially if it's on all the time. And vital for a server which does a
lot more and has a lot more open files.

I don't know if a modem filter would interfere with dsl. You would have
to try it and see.

Les
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