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Originally Posted by bjones6416
Is it not stormy there, or do you have a UPS? Really, even if we don't have anything as extreme as a house fire (!), power goes out, even if momentarily, a LOT during the summer. I've always heard that the surge of coming back on is hard on appliances. I'm no electrician, though.
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you just need a surge protector to guard against the surge of energy coming in as power re-boots. if you have ever had air in your water lines and seen the build up of pressure as the water resumes, that is similar to what is happening with power restorations. in an ideal world for the power company, all legs of dead circuits would be turned off and eased back on when power is restored, but that just isn't going to happen
I lose power several times a month in the winter, and at least a few times during the summer. quite often I am actually using my laptop as the power goes out. I got this laptop almost 4 years ago on a contract I was on and it was used then. I almost never turn my laptop off, just close it when I am finished even when I am taking it somewhere. it has more frequent flier miles than most people. it has been dropped, jostled in overhead bins, stepped on by my 185 pound Newife, I just recently managed to crack the screen about an inch and a half in from the left due to picking it up by the edge of the screen. the laptop itself is just now beginning to fail. my mouse jumps all over the place, scrolls on its own, and does a bunch of other extremely annoying things. last week it started blue screening, 5 times in one day alone. I did as many clean-ups as possible, but it is on its last legs. wiser heads than mine have determined that the hard drive has probably been corrupted. so it is about to be put out to pasture. it will stay by my bedside as long as I can still get online with it, but no more travels for this old work horse