Bugger.

[unixronin]

My Sun 90D10 monitor is starting to look shaky again.  If it fails, I can't afford to replace it.

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[ithildae.livejournal.com]

My NEC XP21 started acting up several months back. I stopped leaving it on all the time. Now it gets shut off at least every night. Hasn't given me a bit of trouble since.

This time of year includes wildly uncertain temps and weird power problems*, try to mitigate both.

*No, a normal, high end, UPS will not stop the power problems. Things like 1 - 2 minute power surges just won't be detected by a UPS. Only an in-line power conditioner/UPS will fix stuff like that. You may have one (I do) but they are hard to come by inexpensive.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SU5000RMT5U


I think this is the one we've got but only going by what I remember it looking like in the bottom of the rack.

It was free. Just needed to buy batteries.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

No, ours is an SU3000RM5U.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

The APC smartUPS series is good, but it still will not stop longer surges. To do that you need something that is constantly converting line to DC, charging the batteries, and running DC to conditioned AC from the batteries. Not cheap! Power gets really iffy in the midwest spring...