[Novalug] incredibly stupid monitor

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
 	[...]
>>  	It has one of those damn little transformer gadgets like
>> a printer -- which is going to draw power even when it's off.
>>
>>  	In other words, it'll kill my UPS. It'll drain the
>> battery even with everything shut down.
>>
> Your UPS should be providing power to its devices straight from 
> the electricity that comes from the wall during normal 
> operation.  Only when the incoming wall power goes out does the 
> battery kick in and start to drain. So fill it up with 
> electrical devices and it shouldn't be a problem until the 
> power goes out.

 	Precisely. And then it kills the UPS. I was taking all 
the above for granted, trying to save space. We have multi-hour 
power outages here -- one yesterday.

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