That was unexpected!

[hairy_hats]

Now there's a tale to tell the grand-kids on a long winter's evening. I think you should write it down somewhere.

[Johnny J]

Now THAT would have been MORE than unexpected! :laugh:

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[Johnny J]

viaducting wrote:

I think you should write it down somewhere.

The Lounge, for instance? :confused:

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[BobJanova]

viaducting wrote:

Now there's a tale to tell the grand-kids on a long winter's evening

... by candlelight.

[Mitchell J]

But being careful doesn't mean I don't make mistakes! It just means that I'm more at fault when I do make them... :~

[Mitchell J]

Most of the time, yes. However I'd only made five minute's worth of changes - mostly very small size adjustments and color changes. It was kinda guaranteed to work.

[Dan Neely]

Nope. If he was being careful he'd either be using a laptop or have an UPS attached to his desktop; in either case he wouldn't've lost power. :rolleyes:

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[Rage]

Oh, sorry, I had to microwave briefly my coffee.

~RaGE();

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[Dinesh V Kumar]

It would have been the code that he was doing that blew up the fuse :-D

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Were you using IE? /ravi

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[Amarnath S]

Which country is this? In India where I live, this is quite common, so we have Inverters in most houses - it is also called a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply). That gives a 2-3 hour backup till the main lines are restored.

[Ravi Bhavnani]

An inverter converts DC to AC and is different from a UPS. /ravi

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[Member 4194593]

What! No UPS??? We just had a momentary outage last night - the whole house went dark except for the TV and the PCs that are on UPS. Now I just have to put the clocks on UPSs, of course, Grandfather just kept ticking away - didn't phase him at all. Started using UPSs in my prior home which was within a mile of the substation that also fed the Motorola chip plant. Early very Monday morning Motorola would turn on the ovens and cause a brown out for a brief minute (I happened to be on my system at the time) and it crashed my system until I got the UPS. Never had a problem after that. Dave.

[MacSpudster]

@OriginalGrifff forgot to pay the power bill, again!

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[PapaCraft]

You are a careful coder :-D

[Karen Mitchelle]

Experienced it, way back in college. When I'm on my educational game project (for PC), one of my classmates accidentally tripped on the lappie's charger, then poof! I lost an hour of work?! After that, I taught myself to save everything after I've done some modifications in my projects, Even just a line of code. My classmates thought I'm an OC. :doh:

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[Amarnath S]

Exactly. The Inverter is connected to a 12 V DC battery (similar to a car battery), and together, these constitute the 'UPS'.

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Ah.  I didn't realize you meant a home-brewed UPS. /ravi

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[Amarnath S]

It is not home-brewed. The combination of Inverter and Battery is sold here under the name 'UPS'.