Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 22:50:20 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:56 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> Well, all of my UPSs (iirc) are wired by the maker (APC) to 
> complain if not; this particular one, a duplicate of what my computer 
> shop uses, would probably do its celebrated imitation of a fire engine
> in 
> a fight to the death with an ambulance if it found itself ungrounded.
> It 
> wakes me up easily if we have a power failure in the night -- and I
> sleep 
> on the floor above.

Well of course ungrounded doesn't mean disconnected. I have an APC model
and IIRC its reaction to a faulty ground is to turn a status light
yellow instead of green. Of course yours may be different.

poc




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