On Sunday, 29 October 2017 19:01:37 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 29/10/17 11:21, Dale wrote:
> > Power failures aren't as often the past few years anyway.  I could
> > almost make it without a UPS BUT I do like having that extra
> > protection.  Mine has some serious surge protection in it plus
> > brownout/over voltage protection/warning as well.  While I have a fairly
> > decent power supply in this rig, I didn't buy the cheapest thing out
> > there, having a little extra is nice.  May save my bacon one day.  ;-)
> 
> Depends where you live. Are you in the States?
> 
> I'm in the UK and powercuts are almost unheard of AT THE MOMENT. But we
> keep getting dire warnings that our generation is going down, while
> demand is going up, and they are on the verge of crossing ...
> 
> Dunno what's going to happen then, but we tend to get trips and cuts,
> not brownouts, so we could be in for a nasty shock in the not too
> distant future :-(
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol

You may have missed it but the shocks you are talking about have already 
happened:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/25/blackout-friday-in-central-london-as-power-cut-hits-west-end

and are ongoing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/10020434/Terrifying-explosion-in-central-London-caught-on-camera.html

BTW, perhaps in UK cities general and unpredicted power cuts are relatively 
rare and brownouts don't occur often.  Out in the sticks the infrastructure is 
so neglected power cuts and brown outs can be a weekly occurrence.  I just 
bought yet another UPS to protect my TV and media devices, having suffered 
catastrophic failures in the past.  :-(

-- 
Regards,
Mick