No...  I was the one who had to console the poor student (giving the 
melted mass time to cool down) and then contact APC.

You'd not believe it, but APC actually wanted to look at the unit to see 
why the breaker did not trip.  They actually replaced it with a new one!

Joseph Heaton <jhea...@dfg.ca.gov> wrote on 08/03/2010 12:17:37 PM:

> Personal mishap, Richard?
> 
> >>> <richardmccl...@aspca.org> 8/3/2010 10:06 AM >>>
> Don't plug space heaters into them, either!
> 
> David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote on 08/03/2010 12:01:04 PM:
> 
> > - do not plug surge protectors into a UPS. If they UPS runs on 
> > batteries it will usually generate a step sine wave which may 
> > destroy surge protectors (in particular tricky to find power strips 
> > without surge protector)
> > 
> > http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9319 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
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