Re: PC Mains switch rating

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 00:00

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           Steve@sabcom.demon.co.uk "Steve Blackmore" writes:

>> >socket/monitor - I never switch monitors off with their own switch
>> >- they have been known to fail! and its only a five minute job to 
>> >replace the one in the PC case)
>> 
>> So the PC switch gets all the surge current ?
>
>Yep - never had one fail - unlike some monitor switches 

I've only had one psu switch fai; an AST. On the outside it's big
and red, on the inside it's small and clunky !


>(Tatung especially)and some wall socket switches. 

I've never has a wall switch fail.


>(I've just replaced one in the kitchen - It smelt like cat pee

Ahh !  Urea /  formaldehyde !  Yum !


> - and we haven't got a cat! BTW it was a VOLEX)

But you did have a vole...

-- 
John Beardmore

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