Power surge undeterred by 1400 backups

[crazyray]

FPL stands for Florida Power & Light or Frequent Pops & Lightning...

A pop this morning apparently cooked the power supply in my tower in spite of my large backups. SHEESH!!

[Nighthawk]

1400 backups? Geez that's a lot of surge supressors

What all do you have between the wall plug and your computer? Odds are that something in the chain has a warranty that will replace anything damaged. I know APC has some pretty large warranties, I think my power strip is $5,000 or something like that.

[Siliconjunkie]

Problem will be claiming just a PSU will probably be more trouble than its worth.

[Mntsnow]

Who makes your UPS? How old is it? How many surges have been thru it before this latest one?

[crazyray]

Your very apt questions forced me to think. The backups is less than 5 months old. How could the power supply, a 500 watt Robanton bought with the POWMAX DataSafe 1400 VA backups, be zapped by this single surge while everything else was unfazed?

It turns out that the power supply has a circuit breaker on it. I turned the PS switch to off, back to on, then hit the switch on the puter and, like Frankenstein, IT IS ALIVE!!



I've got a mind like a steel trap...that needs to be sharpened and sprayed with WD40!!

[dr_roberts49]

Now that's a HAPPY ENDING!

Robert

[SeanC]

Good thing though. But most APC power supplies have at least a $5000 replacement warranty. The larger ones have like $10,000 or $25,000. Some of the large ones I order at work have $100,000 coverage.

Sean