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Plug Arcade directly into the wall?
leapinlew:
The surge protector for mine is mounted inside the cabinet. Everything inside the cabinet plugs into it. The cord coming out of the cabinet is the plug for the surge protector
Organic Jerk:
Surge Protector, most definitely. If you could spend the money I would even go with a UPS.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: OrganicJerk on March 16, 2007, 06:00:49 pm ---Surge Protector, most definitely. If you could spend the money I would even go with a UPS.
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I'm curious why you would go with a UPS? Seems like an unnecessary expense to me.
tommyinajar:
--- Quote from: dndcollect on March 16, 2007, 05:12:18 pm ---i have just a regular generic one, is there a good one out there that people use?
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Don't even bother with those cheap ones you get at Walmart for 4 $- Chances are it won't work when you need it the most. Spend a little here to possibly save allot later.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 16, 2007, 06:36:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: OrganicJerk on March 16, 2007, 06:00:49 pm ---Surge Protector, most definitely. If you could spend the money I would even go with a UPS.
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I'm curious why you would go with a UPS? Seems like an unnecessary expense to me.
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They protect against brownouts. If you have power equipment or some other appliance with a nice big motor on the same circuit as a light bulb, you'll see brownouts when you start the motor up.
For most equipment, it's harmless. It just runs slower or whatever.
For some equipment, they run weird. You could potentially lose data with crappy PC's or you might burn out the PCB, like what happend with my TV twice.
For arcades, I figure it's a toss up. The IC's are probably irreplaceable so if they burn, that's it. But then again those machines have probably been plugged into power grids on par with the projects for the last twenty years.
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