"Hugh Newbury" wrote ...
comp.john wrote:

Surge protection will protect your computers and instruments
against
electrical surges and nothing more. What you really need is a UPS
(uninterruptable power supply) that has power smoothing capability
to
ensure your equipment is not bothered by electrical noise on the
wires.

Got one of those! But I'm not sure how much it protects against
blips and dropouts on the supply.


.... very well! Acts like a 'buffer' between the public supply and
what-ever you're powering. I've had one for several years (for all my
PC/associated stuff), and now we're in a notoriously 'iffy' area of
Dorset (lots of the original mains power supplied overhead via
unprotected conductors), it has repaid the £90- odd I paid for it many
times over.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023