Hardware trouble? Me? Or ...??
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 22:50:20 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:56 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> Well, all of my UPSs (iirc) are wired by the maker (APC) to
> complain if not; this particular one, a duplicate of what my computer
> shop uses, would probably do its celebrated imitation of a fire engine
> in
> a fight to the death with an ambulance if it found itself ungrounded.
> It
> wakes me up easily if we have a power failure in the night -- and I
> sleep
> on the floor above.
Well of course ungrounded doesn't mean disconnected. I have an APC model
and IIRC its reaction to a faulty ground is to turn a status light
yellow instead of green. Of course yours may be different.
poc
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