RE: OT - One for the (DUH) List...

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

More might or might not be better, though nowadays it probably is. Somewhere 
around ten years ago, we found out that plugging at least some IBM PS/2s into 
surge protectors could void the warrantys. It seems they had builtin surge 
protectors, and adding an external surge protector could produce some odd 
effect like a feedback that could cause damage. The user manuals warned against 
it but you had to actually read the thing to discover it. (As if!)

I'd be surprised if that kind of engineering would go unnoticed today and maybe 
even surprised if made it out of the lab... but it can't hurt to be sure.

Tom Liotta

midrange-l-request@midrange.com wrote:

>  13. RE: OT - One for the (DUH) List... (Fisher, Don)
>
>Just my opinion, of course, but more is always better.  As I understand it,
>though, uninterruptible power supplies act as excellent surge protectors.
>Do you not have your system plugged into such a thing?
>
>
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>But I got to thinking - Do I even need a surge protector for the AS/400?
>You would think that a six figure machine would have some built in
>protection.  Or is more better?
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