Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Clarifications needed -

On Friday 12 September 2003 10:45 pm, Weyland wrote:

> On Friday 12 September 2003 09:34 pm, Tim Goldstein spake:
> > > My concern is over the 80 VDC limit for the
> > > Geckos. (G210s marked with "90IFX" on the covers.)
> >
> > What happens when your power company lets the voltage float high?
> > According to Mariss (and he should know) the number 1 cause of blown
> > Geckos by a large margin is over voltage.
>
> mmmHmmmm... I hadn't thought of that. Thanks.
> But wouldn't the UPS (if used here) help there, as well?
> (Assuming that I used the right one, that had
> over-voltage protection as well as under-voltage)
> <...like a SmartUPS...>

<snip>
Don't bet on the UPS switching perfictly cleanly. I scrapped a rather
expensive name brand UPS when I found that under certain conditions it
produced a HUDGE switchover spike; enough to cook surge protectors now and
then. YMMV
--
Keith Bowers - Thomasville, NC