Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free August b7 guard equipment against sudden surges suppressors necessary by Joshua Mills times news service most computer owners know that surge suppressors Are a necessary piece of providing a Buffer Between the vagaries and irregularities of electric current and the delicate insides of their compute the goal of a suppressor is to guard against sudden surges or Quick drops in electrical which can give a hard disk the wobbles and cause the computer to lock up and but in Many the solution is neither convenient nor the suppressor a Box or strip offering multiple with safety circuitry inside often sits on the floor under the desk or snagged beneath a Forest of cables behind the computer flip Ping the suppressor on can involve hunching under the desk or grop ing behind the Monitor to reach the on a simple and elegant solution is what the Industry Calls a desktop console a surge suppressor a few centimetres High that sits Between the computer and the like brownies Between the plate and whipped widely used in the corporate it is modest enough in Cost that it is Worth considering for the a new Model designed for the called the masterpiece Home has just been introduced by Kensington microwave a longtime Leader in surge this which Sells for about is a less expensive the company More robust masterpiece plus and the Curtis manufacturing Curtis command Centre plus surges can be caused by a rapid change in the Power supplied to a the enormous charge delivered by lightning or an overload of demand by particularly during the air conditioning sea against these Curtis and other companies that make suppressors have arrayed a variety of weapons complicated enough that the services of an electrical Engineer might be needed to understand but All Consumers really need to do is plug the suppressor in and know that the Best Protection comes from a High Joule rating and a Low under writers laboratories the Joule rating measures the suppressors resistance to Energy a Joule is a measure of the amount of work done by one Newton acting through the distance of one the underwriters laboratories or us measures How Many volts a surge suppressor will pass to the computer Kensington masterpiece Home for has a Joule rating of 420 and a us rating of its masterpiece plus has a Joule rating of and a us rating of cur Tiss command Centre plus has a Joule rating of 840 and a us rating of a Good suppressor should also offer what is known As which guards against electromagnetic and radio frequency it should also provide a Telephone line connection to protect the one or More warning lights that signal when the device is functioning and a substantial Oce other desktop console the masterpiece office has outlets on the Back for plugging in the print speakers and any other external like a compact disk player or an external it also has individual switches on the front for each device As Well As a master switch that can turn All the devices off at that switch allows computer users to leave on the Power switches of the speakers and More and to turn the whole system off and on with a sin Gle the masterpiece Home office has six outlets on the one of them not connected to the master switch and offering continuous so thate Telephone answer ing machine or facsimile machine can be left on even when the com Puter is there is a phone and the whole unit so it can be used to rotate the people who buy the masterpiece Are usually second time buyers of surge said Nina the products line Man Ager for the Home office Model will protect an aver and All the peripherals that go along with the masterpiece plus Model has seven two of them Contin both machines have a life time As does Curtiss command Centre which has five outlets in the Back and four plus for typical Home the Kensington masterpiece Home office should be More than cube readers carve out own internet role Canadian press Toronto heres a new wrinkle on the 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