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   Message 11,971 of 13,597   
   TOM WALKER to DARYL STOUT   
   Re: Found New Hardware   
   05 Jun 15 10:57:00   
   
   DS>SD>Still, the UPS will kick in within milliseconds and he won't notice   
   DS>SD>anything.  My power fluctuates constantly here and I don't ever notice it   
   DS>SD>my computers (appliances, et cetera will go off, but that's no big deal).   
      
   DS>  I've seen it kick in, and it's like Windows and the BBS goes   
   DS>"Huh??"...and goes back to what it's doing, without batting an eye.   
      
   Yep, the Capacitors on the motherboard and in the power supply will hold   
   things for the milliseconds it takes the UPS to kick in.   
   A lot of the more expensive units run on the bultin inverter all the   
   time so that even those millisecond interuptions don't happen   
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