Quality of power in house
All of the computers in my house have been having weird motherboard problems. I have noticed that if i leave a computer on while at school, occasionally it will be of when i come home. I assume the quality of the power in my house sucks. It is an older house, there is no ground. Now that I am in the shopping for another motherboard would it make sense to pick up a UPS? Would that clean up the power and protect from whatever it is that keeps destroying my computers?
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If you want it to clean the power, you have to make sure that the inverter runs the power through the batterise. Most inverters just give you direct wall power and bypass the battery until there's a power outage, then they switch you to the battery.
Various companies sell line conditioners, which are usually cheaper than UPSes. I don't know how well they work, but you might want ot give one a try.
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It's definitly worth picking up some UPSs, but also, get thost outlets grounded. Computes and UPSs will do weird things if there are no grounds...
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I have a ground denial in the bedroom also, and the UPS completely refuse to power on without the ground. I CHEATED by connecting the neutral (white wire) to the ground on the new outlet (the neutral and ground is the same point at the electrical box, just make sure that there is a real ground connected to a copper rod buried or the water pipes). I was thinking of actually running a bus bar strip jamming it under the siding and using this for a real ground for the bedrooms on the exterior walls.
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