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Old 05-06-2006, 09:59 PM  
Peaches
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Originally Posted by rowan
A UPS protects from short term dropouts (like half a second as a substation switches over) and also other problems such as brownouts (voltage wandering below specs). A generator will keep you going for ages, but you still need to start it... in the meantime your comp crashes, or switches off.
Well, the computer I use is a laptop so the battery takes over, HOWEVER....more importantly, would it keep me from having to wait 10 minutes for the DirecTV/TiVo to charge back up again?
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