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ROFLMAO! PooBaa, you're kidding right, you actually hooked an electric heater into your UPS, I wouldn't have told anyone, I guess there is a fine line between Genius and Insanity after all.

LMAO!
LMAO!
LMAO!

Thanks Man I needed a good laugh!

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Yeah in hindsight it wasn't a terribly smart move... But at the time i didnt really think about it.

Easy fix though. And no damage done.
Very nice UPS. *pats UPS*

Oh and the plugs are split 3/2, with 3 with surgeprotection and battery backup, the other two only surgeprotection and the heater WASN'T on the battery backup
THe critical items are on the battery backup, the monitor, PC and ADSL modem.



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temps are around 4-14C.
Not very cold i know, but its a annoying damp cold... and our houses have Shite insulation, especially ours. So in the mornings room temp can get down to 12C!

In winter the small study thats my PC room usually stays at around 17C. Still not great, but warmer than the rest of the house thanx to my room heater PC.


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You did what?

Dumbass.

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Sometimes vicious buggers... and play havoc with the power!
A number of times ive seen charcoal corpses still fried onto the line the touched last.

Those buggers, and our generally unreliable power, is the main reason for my UPS purchace

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you dont have possums in france? they are like big rats that dont do a whole lot but make babies.

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What the hell????? They speak french in Canada?? Since when??

Poobaa, u ever tried to eat one? Reminds me of something cruel I did yesterday. I was playing around w/ an 18V battery pack I made for a motor, and that thing gets realllly hot when it shorts and it even melted my copper wires a few times (and burned my friend numerous times....he holds the pack, not me hehehehehe). Anyway, we noticed this living thing outside, so after staring at each other for a minute laughing cruelly like dr. evil, we went outside and fried it. Heheheh.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

How do the possums get fried if they arent grounded? Hmm. Anyways I had my athlon 700mhz slot plugged into a ups. A fax machine and other things were plugged in. My dad was expecting a fax and saw the machine was off. He noticed the ups was tripped and turned it back on. BZAAAAAAAAAP the psu on the athon flashed and caught fire. A capacitor it seemed was actually flaming. No clue what happened, but it tripped the ups, and the comp still works

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Hehehe. A friend of mine at my school's computer club decided he'd build a comp from scratch. Fine, I let him. 1 hour later he comes to me and says ok, let's turn this thing on, and upon quick inspection I tell him don't u dare, but he does. Bang! Boom! The psu caught fire and then entire room was in smoke- the parts were totally fried. Hehehe.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

Well, after reading all these posts, I have a few comments.

First, I'm kinda surprised it only took that much to trip your UPS. I have my OC'ed Athlon 2500+, 4HDDs, Radeon 9700 Pro, 17" CRT, 300W stereo + 300W subwoofer, black light, lava lamp, and four 100w bulbs all running off a single PLUG, and I've never shorted it. That's roughly 15-18 amps. How crappy is your heater?

Second, I have two of these UPSs. My plan was to daisy chain them and have double the backup protection for all my devices. After twice testing my configuration, I found I only had 6 seconds of backup power. So, I call up APC to find out what's up. Who would've thought these things don't have enough current output to do that? Stupid gay APC. I would've bought two more if they could do that, but instead of $120 for two 500w units, I gotta spend $250 for a 1000w unit. Gay, gay, gay. Next time the power goes out I'll just go for a drive in my 3,000-watt-soundsystem car.

Another thing is that French people in Canada don't speak french, they speak joyale (sp?). Think of a Louisiana drawl vs. British english. That's what joyale is compared to France french. In fact, people in France make fun of people from Quebec, just like everyone makes fun of people from down south US.

But I digress.

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The heater could is probably at least 1500W, even a small one. There is no way any home computer is going to produce that much power draw.

LOL possums get shorted when the touch an active and something grounded.

And as for the heater... well on the back is written 2200W. which is ALOT of wattage!

And my 500VA APC UPS can keep my system up for over 2 minutes. I havnt timed it, but its only been down to 60% battery level.


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