This Wednesday turned into a nightmare with 3 fried power supplies in one office

Fixed one PC, moved to the next, and somehow the surge from a faulty UPS blew two more units before I caught it. Has anyone else dealt with a daisy-chained power setup causing this kind of chain reaction?

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paige_west21d ago

Dude, that sucks. Always plug your UPS units directly into the wall, never daisy chain them. Even the good ones can freak out when they're overloaded. I had a similar thing happen a few years back with a whole row of servers - one UPS went bad and took out three others in the chain. Now I run each critical machine on its own dedicated circuit. Saves a lot of headaches and fried hardware down the road.

william40721d ago

Hold on a sec @paige_west, I'm pretty sure you mean dedicated circuits not dedicated circuits. But you're right about not daisy chaining UPS units. I learned that one the hard way too when a power strip caught fire in my homelab setup a couple years back. Now each of my critical machines gets its own outlet and I label everything with a label maker so I don't forget which circuit is which.