On Jul 28, 11:32 am, Jolly Roger <jollyro...@pobox.com> wrote: > I don't give a flying fuck about science. All I know is UPS surge > protectors protect my equipment from the types of surges that damage > them without such protection.
Jolly Roger has no idea whether a UPS did or will protect electronics from surges. An invisible UPS protected all those other electronics? Or maybe that surge was so trivial as to also not damage other appliances. A UPS that does not even claim to provide that protection? That UPS provided protection only because that the myth is popular and because a surge could not overwhelm protection inside the computer. What protected that computer? More likely: protection already inside that computer.
Jolly Roger's reasoning proves that junk science is alive and well. Observation without underlying knowledge becomes factual proof? Hardly. But that same reasoning also proved that Saddam had WMDs. Four letter profanity was also is proof?
Where are UPS manufacturer specs that list each type of surge and protection from that surge? No numbers provided. No numbers exist. A typical UPS connects electronics directly to AC mains when not in batter backup mode. Does that relay magically provide surge protection? Does that relay magically stop what three miles of sky could not? Of course not.
Fortunately, electronics contain protection internally. A typical UPS outputs surges when in battery backup mode. Voltage spikes also made irrelevant by protection already inside electronics. Same internal protection for computers must be even better and is required even by Intel specs. But somehow a UPS - that does not even claim protection - must have provided the protection. Jolly Roger just knows. He doesn't "give a flying fuck about science." He just knows. Jolly Rogers is typically of a majority who recommend protection without first learning the science.
