Return-Path: Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4723803 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 24 May 2012 19:48:14 +0200 Received: by dakp5 with SMTP id p5so58580dak.28 for ; Thu, 24 May 2012 10:50:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=2friU3Svjf8bHbSxwIriUNXQmAJ7zXAKz70dd1uuC0A=; b=EDZUGiLrM5oP7J2QCw4FElNp3AGTVqSADo0CHqhg0gnmGMDU3ms4FB/X1drSF9asmA VAbZRtaaGnkeOUfI5BzSmEnT8ePaAHkYLcq9PEJKOj3Ypww79PLbBTIvOsJI8w26rjdl zCvR48eJ1UWTOUgApIcZRotC73Vo5PRBz/d2X/ihoovTDD9ODavrfXBG/uk65FKDED7W mqQUG0w5tigtfWepWn45+4la46pqu7NjoUdjGVfP1rq2la0aA1LV/HtQ4SgHGdrakIfW 2ImS1qPTNPTd5pwy7RcqlqcDkmkuEY3N3wUyr8sgx1ROOcv6YrmS0thCqaCRhsta1lbr g+6g== Received: by 10.68.242.99 with SMTP id wp3mr23440286pbc.21.1337881817069; Thu, 24 May 2012 10:50:17 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.1.2] (70-36-136-150.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net. [70.36.136.150]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id uz7sm6132754pbc.35.2012.05.24.10.50.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 24 May 2012 10:50:16 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Subject: Re: [AE] OT: Workstation UPS Recommendations From: Jim Feeley In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 10:50:15 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) You didn't click on my links, did you? :-) APC makes single UPS units = that a bigger than three refrigerators. Not many brown-outs in the SF Bay Area; we outsource those to LA. Jim Feeley jfeeley@gmail.com On May 24, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Jim Curtis wrote: > I have come to believe in the dictum that you can't have too many = backups, even backup power supply backups. >=20 > Or, as Robin Williams said, "Redundant? Redundant. Redundant!" >=20 > I've even been considering buying a backup power generator for my = home, which is where my office is. Those are really expensive, = especially if large enough to run the HVAC. I wonder what you = Californians do. You seem to be hit with brown-outs worse than anybody = in the USA. >=20 >=20 >=20 > On May 24, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Jim Feeley wrote: >=20 >>> I have three of the largest APC units on my main workstation >> Geez, that really seems like overkill