On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:20:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:56 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> Well, all of my UPSs (iirc) are wired by the maker (APC) to complain if >> not; this particular one, a duplicate of what my computer shop uses, >> would probably do its celebrated imitation of a fire engine in >> a fight to the death with an ambulance if it found itself ungrounded. >> It >> wakes me up easily if we have a power failure in the night -- and I >> sleep >> on the floor above. > > Well of course ungrounded doesn't mean disconnected. I have an APC model > and IIRC its reaction to a faulty ground is to turn a status light > yellow instead of green. Of course yours may be different. Well, old mountain man from back of beyond that I am, I have known people think I might could exaggerate a tad bit at times ... Anyway, the only time I ever see any light turn yellow, or even blink, is when I power one up after having had it off. (I turn them off during power failures, and do that plus unplug the whole shebang from the wall any time I expect to be away overnight or longer.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
