Protect your devices from load shedding
Grant Selvan gives some tips on how to protect your digital devices when load shedding kicks in.
Over the past few years, South Africans have been subjected to various hardships and burdens.
Load shedding is Eskom’s doublespeak for “Incompetent” and is just one of the items on the list of annoyances for South Africans.
2014 was a year to be remembered as the “year of darkness”, we witnessed the most awful episodes of “shedding”, with next to no warning and no apologies.
Our electrical gadgets are not intended or equipped for Eskom’s incompetence.
- Gadgets don’t mean to disappoint us by failing to switch off. They never get a memo as to when the erratic schedule of powerlessness will happen and therefore they break.
We have lost thousands upon thousands of our beloved toys and business tools to the scourge of planned darkness and with that millions of Rand’s worth of gadgets have sacrificed their lives.
Sure you can claim for it on your insurance and then watch your premiums soar.
Prepare yourself and minimise your losses with these easy steps
UNPLUG CABLES
It is important to get into the habit of unplugging power cables from the socket when you are aware of a force outage.
SURGE PROTECTION IS YOUR FRIEND
With power fluctuating from, on to off and back to on again it causes a shortening of the average life-cycle of the electronic equipment being surged by a sixth of its original shelf life.Surge protection can be installed very cost effectively and save you piles of money and frustration.
COMPLETELY CHARGE YOUR BATTERIES
Check that your smart phone battery is completely charged and that your gadgets and tablets have enough battery life. Angry Birds makes a 2 hour shed just a little bit more bearable. Have a “crisis3g dongle ready” for your notebook.
PUT YOUR DEVICES ONTO A UPS
An Uninterrupted Power Supply is not just for that continuation factor, it also regulates the power clarity into your machine because power fluctuation also harms electronic equipment.An average UPS will give you 15 to 60 minutes of clean regulated power from its batteries and when the power is on, it optimises the feed to your sensitive tech.
BECOME A “BACK IT UP” KIND OF PERSON
Manually or automatically set up a data backup cycle so that it runs and saves incremental snapshots of your data. Set auto saves on most programs and never worry about needing to type that spread sheet or article again.
Maintain your sanity during the darkness
For surge or UPS protection contact Cutting Edge Today
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