Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > It's not because the printer makes the power unclean or otherwise interferes > with the correct functioning of the UPS while mains is working. They > recommend against connecting printers because printers draw a large amount of > power, dramatically reducing the time the UPS can maintain power to the system > if the mains fails. Correct. > Also, (1) I've never actually needed my printer during an > outage Generally, people don't. Only the minimum minimorum (strict minimum) needs to be connected to the UPS' electrical outlets. Mine has two rows of electrical outlets: one which is `only' secured, and the other which is connected to the battery. The best idea is to not succumb to the tentation of plugging every possible electrical device into the battery-connected electrical outlets. But reasonable thoughts need to be taken into account in this case. I saw people having the screen plugged in the battery, but the main unit being plugged into the not-battery row. This is complete nonsense, and a total lack of commonsense. > and (2) printers generally don't suffer the same ill effects from > sudden power loss that file systems do. > Sure. But scanners do. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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