Arrrrrrrrrgh

[laserblazer]

I've been editing some video stuff that I have to get to the duplicators tonight. It was half way through a 4 hour render and my wife started ironing and tripped the ECB. The ironing HAS to be done, so I don't dare start it going again until she's finished. Looks like it will be a late night!

[EduTech]

Time for a new iron maybe? that's a nightmare aswell it's not a fast process either is it! Edited March 30, 2010 by EduTech

[webman]

Get a UPS

[laserblazer]

Get a UPS

 

That will run a quad core computer for 4 hours?

[SYNACK]

Solution: Honda EU30iS Portable Petrol Generator

http://www.justgenerators.co.uk/pages/honda%20generators/EU%20Range/Honda_EU30iS.jpg

With a 13 hour run time and a regulated sinusoidal wave form you'd be sorted for the bargain price of only £2,012.99 and some gas.

 

A good UPS would shield it from spikes and give you enough time to reset the breaker though which may be cheaper.

[glennda]

either the ECB is dodgy or the iron is! the pc and the iron on its own cannot pull the amount of ampage that would trip the circuit (enless its a really low apmped circuit - but one thing that will is something like the amount of energy that is earthed (grounded) - normally caused by LCD monitors and screen - this was the reason we had to put spilt the circuits up for our it rooms as 31 monitors leaving a milli-amp or so each was causing it to trip

[laserblazer]

It's the iron that is dodgy. She overfilled the water.