[NBLUG/talk] UPS for brownouts

[William Tracy]

I'm having some second thoughts now about buying a line-interactive
UPS--this is a second-hand computer, after all, and we were trying
*not* to spend a lot on it. :-P Anybody know of any cheap devices that
just cut the power entirely if there's a brownout and let the laptop's
battery take over from there? ;-)

While I'm at it, we're less than happy with the weight of the UPSes,
since this is going to get mailed to Tennessee and back. I assume it's
the battery making them so heavy, and there's probably no way around
it.

Re the ethernet: My original thinking was that an ethernet network is
going to be all inside the building. If the building I was in got hit
by lightning and things inside started frying, I wouldn't be worried
about the computer any more. :-)

FWIW, my sister is going to the dorms at the university in Sewanee
http://www.sewanee.edu/ so she's not in a mud hut with dial-up. :-) At
the moment I'm operating under the assumption that they're smart
enough to cover their own routers from lightning hits.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the replies, everybody.

-- 
William Tracy
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