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wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>            I would think that cap's that big would provide maybe 1
> second of backup power.  

What will you gain with 1 sec of backup power?  Does your 'puter
and OS have a _graceful_ save and shutdown on power fail mode or
does it just crash?  I wouldn't expect anything graceful from a
DOS machine.

Problems you might have:  inrush current at power-on may smoke
your surge protectors, time constant for "power supply stable"
signal may be too small with huge caps.

If you want to add something that will help your 'puter survive a
few cycles of line drop-out, try a ferro-resonant transformer.

dag
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