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Understanding Power Factor, Crest Factor, And Surge Factor
White Papers The terms Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor refer to completely different and unrelated phenomena. This paper explains the technical terms of Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor. Most UPS systems today have sufficient Crest...
[November 3, 2006, 8:40]
User Group Or Fan Club?
Leader We're referring, of course, to the stories following up on the power surge that fried the servers of Redbus customers last week. We have separately heard stories of the biometric entry system failing as a result of the power cut that ultimately...
[March 8, 2005, 12:30]
Another Thing To Worry About - Summer Lightning
News During a power surge, 'black-lining' can occur, and data may be lost during the heads 'park' procedure. The power surge sends large amounts of electricity directly to the header of the hard drive, and the resulting electromagnetic field wipes away...
[August 12, 2004, 15:40]
Redbus Boss Begs Customers To Stay
News A power surge caused widespread damage to client equipment," said Redbus customer Mike Tims of mtn-i, who is organising a Redbus user group. Some customers are not convinced: "Apart from the power surge which got through to the data floor, the UPS...
[March 7, 2005, 15:20]
10 Ways To Protect Systems From Electrical Damage
News Splitting outlets (using power strips, surge protectors and UPS devices) does nothing but multiply the power demands placed upon the circuit to which those outlets are connected. Even if circuits have been tested, proper grounding has been verified...
[July 20, 2006, 17:35]
Top 10 Tips For Protecting Your PC In Hot Weather
News If the power socket is affected by a power surge, then all the machines could suffer damage Install a surge protector between the power socket and the computer's power cable. Small businesses with networks should get surge protectors to stop power...
[July 6, 2006, 16:40]
10 Things You Should Know About Deploying A UPS
News Should a strong electrical surge occur, the UPS' protective circuit will prevent the surge from destroying other equipment. Some servers may require six, eight, or even 10 minutes to properly shut down; if the shutdown sequence is initiated when...
[June 21, 2006, 15:40]
001Micron USB Drive Files Recovery
Downloads Pen drive USB removable media files folders restoration utility helps to retrieve your lost or deleted data, documents, directory, music files, video clips, movies etc from your storage media due to power surge, system failure, software...
[October 11, 2007, 15:31]
A Worm Belies Apple's Perfection
Talkback A UFO could crash into the power pole outside your house, causing a surge and thus destroying your Mac. NO COMMENT NECESSARY So far after 11 months of this year, the same number of mac users destroyed by UFO is equal to the number of mac users with...
[November 5, 2004, 20:03]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback Support tells me it's a power surge. THERE'S NO POWER.how plain can I make it. Awful, dispicable, horrendous.what more do you need. OurDell arrived and the D drive didn't exist. Support eventually talked us through it.
[June 23, 2006, 13:30]
Time Crisis: Administrators Called In
Talkback It caused some sort of power surge to my USB card and damaged it. I'm not surprised that Time has gone to the dogs, it's about "Time" too! My 1st experience was with a "Time" shop, in Lewisham, around 3 years ago.
[August 3, 2005, 16:11]
How To Protect Your Computer From Surges, Outages, & Other Power Problems
White Papers Due to the popularity of surge protectors, most people think of power surges when they think of power problems. You may have heard it's a good idea to protect computers and other sensitive electronics from power problems.
[March 25, 2008, 1:03]
Planning A Power-management Strategy
News Some plug into an outlet (or, more often, a UPS or surge protector) directly. You know what they say: power corrupts. But a lack of power or inconsistent power — electrical power, that is — can corrupt your data or bring down your entire network.
[July 14, 2006, 13:05]
Data Line Transient Protection
White Papers This white paper explains how transients are created, how they can have devastating effects on electrical equipment, and how surge suppression devices work to help protect against them. Many users appreciate the risk of power surges but overlook...
[July 6, 2007, 3:31]
Image Spam: The Latest Attack On The Enterprise Inbox
White Papers The recent surge in spam volumes is due in large part to the advancement in image spam technology. By combining years of industry-leading research with the power of Secure Computing's global network of sensors, TrustedSource continues its tradition...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
Return Of The Mini-notebook
News Mini-notebook computers, of only mini interest to consumers so far, hope a weight gain and power surge will spark new interest in the market this autumn. Among them will be a low-power 400MHz chip targeted at mini-notebooks of about three pounds...
[October 22, 1999, 8:35]
Hardware Failure - Same Problem On Two Very Different Machines
Forum Power surge is also a possibility. Try stripping down your system to the bare minimum - motherboard, processor with fan, graphics card if there is no built in one, ram, power and monitor. The only things I've known to prevent you reaching the bios...
[December 13, 2006, 13:11]
Another Thing To Worry About - Summer Lightning
Talkback For about 4 years now, all of my equipment has been protected by circuit breakers and surge protectors. I shut my equipment down and about 30 seconds after my workstation and server went down, the local sub-station was hit and we were without power...
[August 13, 2004, 7:28]
Intel Revs Mobile Pentium 4s
News After the performance surge passes, the notebook returns to its slower, unplugged standard. The Pentium 4, which currently is available only in desktops, comes to notebooks by virtue of a manufacturing shift that cuts the power consumed and heat...
[October 17, 2001, 9:23]
Tips For Managing IT Facilities
News It involves filtering out stray magnetic fields that can cause unwanted inductance, doing the same to stray electric fields that can generate unwanted capacitance, and providing surge suppression to prevent voltage spikes.
[June 6, 2005, 17:35]
