{"id":647,"date":"2005-06-14T05:33:37","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T10:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/14\/brownout\/"},"modified":"2005-06-14T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T10:34:08","slug":"brownout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/14\/brownout\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownout Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not uncommon for our part of Painesville, Ohio to get a blackout or two as the hot, muggy weather becomes more common in Northeast Ohio and everyone turns on their air conditioners. Last Friday, however, we had a brownout<\/a>, which resulted in everything that was left plugged in suffering from a severe under-voltage for several hours.<\/p>\n

While my computers were protected by an Uninterruptable Power Supply, or UPS<\/a>, with under-voltage protection that was programmed to shut them down after five minutes, I had forgotten to plug my 19″ Viewsonic A91F+<\/a> into a protected socket. After full power was restored several hours later, I discovered that the monitor would no longer power on.<\/p>\n

I replaced the Viewsonic on Saturday with a Samsung SyncMaster 997DF<\/a> 19″ flat-screen CRT monitor. At $179.99<\/a> from Best Buy, it really wasn’t a bad deal, performing on par with the $249 Viewsonic.<\/p>\n

Still, I’d highly recommend everyone consider looking into a UPS<\/a> for home use. Surge protectors really don’t offer all that much protection outside of a particular type of over-voltage and do nothing to protect your electronics from temporary power sags and under-voltage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not uncommon for our part of Painesville, Ohio to get a blackout or two as the hot, muggy weather becomes more common in Northeast Ohio and everyone turns on their air conditioners. Last Friday, however, we had a brownout, which resulted in everything that was left plugged in suffering from a severe under-voltage for … Continue reading “Brownout Blues”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}