Re: [Hampshire] [OT] All sorts of hardware issues

At 12:04 16/08/2008, you wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Does anyone know of a cost effective solution to a "dirty" electricity
>supply? My father-in-law's PC (built by my own fair hand admittedly!) is
>having all sorts of hardware issues and I don't think it's my workmanship -
>I think it's the electricity supply at his house. In 2 years, we've had to
>replace 3 hard drives, 1 power supply, 1 router and now his optical drive is
>only working intermittantly. Admittedly he does faff about installing
>stuff not having a clue what he's doing - but the errors he comes to me with
>are so serious I can't believe he's doing this himself.
>
>I'm thinking that a standard surge protector isn't good enough - it's not
>power outages that are the problem - I suspect it's blowing components
>because (if we were to test the AC at his house on an oscilloscope) we
>wouldn't get a nice sine wave.
>My electronics knowledge is very rusty though. Are we talking another
>surge protector, a UPS - or something more fundamental here?


A UPS does filter the electrical supply evening the Voltage out so
there are no peeks or
troughs. Dont get a belkin like me as changing the battery is very
difficult and not what
it was designed for.

Martin N