I can see I will have to bite the bullet and buy an UPS.
So you might'a guessed where I'm going with this. GET AN UPS, specially for servers or any system running 24/7. 500VA is very suitable for even the most high powered workstations. It's also usually a good price point. My APC BackUPS/500 was $120 at Wal*Mart about 6 years ago. Which brings up another important point. UPS are just power inverters, taking relatively low voltage DC (battery power) and outputting high voltage AC when needed. 'Course there's other circuitry to react to low/high power situations in fractions of a micro second. Still the most expensive component is the battery. Even in a very cheap UPS. The better UPS brands like APC, cost more initially, but the battery is very high quality and lasts much longer. Mine is still good as new after 6 years. Cheap UPS' are a false ecomomy.
Doesn't really help your immediate problem, but it's a likely cause of it, and should be eliminated in any event. Even if it's not the ultimate culprit.
It only remains to choose the right one.
I think I will start with my best computer, the one I'm on now.
I like to run this computer 24/7 60% of the time, 16/7 40% of the time,I
really don't know why I bother to turn it off (I've learnt the hard way
electrical equipement , especially things like TV's of which I have a
few to extract data on teletext are better left on, than turned off,
they just last longer, don't know why , they just do, take it from me,
I've 25 years of it to know) but I do sometimes.
So It's a quest to find the best piece of value for money UPS, UK source.
John
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