In a message on Wednesday 12-20-15 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GM Ed,   
      
   even though I see that your mail was posted right after midnight.   
      
    HG> Oh yes I know that you older americans don't know the decimal system.   
      
   EV> Decimals are O.K., Metrics are So So, I can use them when needed,   
      
   Because metric is a word that in my mind is so closely related to the   
   length in meters, kilometers and so on, I hesitate to use it to differ   
   between the old Imperial measurements, but I do it anyway.   
      
    EV> .... Right now I inserted the Plugs I usually have in the UPS in a   
    EV> A.C. Power Strip so I could use this pc.   Works For Me!   
      
    HG> Ok, it works for you, but it really isn't necessary to "pre-charge"   
    HG> the battery. Usually there is enough charge in it when you buy it,,   
      
   EV> Of course, You know I turn my UPS Off when I'm done using the   
   EV> computers, I just figure it being plugged in the A.C. Wall Outlet   
   EV> keeps the battery charged up.   
      
   My UPS is constantly on, supplying power and protection to my computer,   
   but the monitor isn't connected to the UPS. This conserves the available   
   power capacity needed in a long power outage.   
      
   If the UPS starts telling me that it is about to be exhausted, I have a   
   handwritten note above the monitor, showing the keystrokes needed to get   
   an orderly close down of the machine.   
      
   That isn't really necessary, since the machine starts up in an ordely   
   way, with only an extra CHKDSK before it awakens, after a close-down.   
      
    HG> The spike preventing circuit also works constantly even with an empty   
    HG> battery.   
      
   EV> Yep, the Nuvistors do that job.   
      
   Please don't use words/names that you don't know the meaning of.   
      
   The nuvistors are/were low-power triodes, used in UHF amplifiers (6CW4),   
   and UHF oscillators (6DV4) up to 1000 MHz.   
      
      
   MRI XMAS,   
      
   Holger   
      
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