EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 59, Issue 11 This issue's topics: power dips, line conditioners and puters (5 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 21:42:50 -0600 From: Mark Swann Subject: power dips,, line conditioners and puters are those 'safe power' boxes that are heavy as lead,, worth it,, that is,,, in my apt.. sometimes the lights dim for a split second,, i havent notcied it affecting my computer yet,, but, I wouldnt want a reset,, have any of you out there doing midi,, use these? Ive heard conflicting suggestions from different computer people,, one said your lights should never dim,, say , when the a/c goes on,, and that the problem is with a transformer outside.. thx.. svann ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 18:00:53 GMT From: Philip Jones Subject: Re : power dips,, line conditioners and puters Hi Mark You Wrote : > are those 'safe power' boxes that are heavy as lead,, worth it,, that is,,, in my apt.. sometimes the lights dim for a split second,, i havent notcied it affecting my computer yet,, but, I wouldnt want a reset,, have any of you out there doing midi,, use these? Ive heard conflicting suggestions from different computer people,, one said your lights should never dim,, say , when the a/c goes on,, and that the problem is with a transformer outside.. thx.. svann < If they don't affect your computer you are lucky, but you might not know that they haven't. Sometimes if there is a spike during drive accessing the drive can be corrupted but you won't know about until you can't load a specific file or run a program. Also, spike and noise can cause major head aches when recording as you might have a perfect take except for a massive click in the middle, which doesn't do much for anyone's humour. PS. Is that the first mail you have ever sent or is it that you can't format a letter or manage to type in sentences? Oh Well that's about it. Don't worry if you believe in luck. Bye; Phil Jones(pj02@ee.ic.ac.uk) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 17:29:11 -0500 From: not Robert Subject: Re: power dips,, line conditioners and puters > are those 'safe power' boxes that are heavy as lead,, worth it,, > that is,,, in my apt.. sometimes the lights dim for a split second,, > i havent notcied it affecting my computer yet,, but, I wouldnt want a > reset,, have any of you out there doing midi,, use these? > Ive heard conflicting suggestions from different computer people,, > one said your lights should never dim,, say , when the a/c goes on,, and > that the problem is with a transformer outside.. > thx.. svann umm, up to you and the work that you do... with a decent computer it shouldn't matter as long as you haven't had problems up to now (as far as dips) 'cuz you should be in the habit of saving your work frequently anyway... Macs with the int'l (autoswitching 110/220v) power-supplies (i think all the macs that have more than one slot have these) as far as MIDI stuff goes... older gear can and will freak from line spikes that go ignored by the worst computer powersupplies... and playing live it is a must if you value your programs... basically, if your house/apt is relatively new and everything is grounded, i wouldn't worry -- if it's older, get one. -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 03:21:46 -0600 From: Mark Swann Subject: Re: Re : power dips,, line conditioners and puters phil,, thx for reply,,, sentences? as long as the info gets across,, ... that is,, thoughts represented with or without grammar,, if its there well,, hmm. actually, i may get one of those safe power things.. svann. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 11:14:14 GMT From: Philip Jones Subject: Re: Re : power dips,, lin svann wrote ; > phil,, thx for reply,,, sentences? as long as the info gets across,, ... that is,, thoughts represented with or without grammar,, if its there well,, hmm. actually, i may get one of those safe power things.. svann. > What can I say??!!!! :))) ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************