COOL!!!

[KillerBug]

Ok, my power just went out, my radio turned off, my scanner dies, but my computer stays on! Monitor too. I have a surge protector, no batery back up, and everything that went out was on the same power strip (we are talkin 9 devices here, 2 power strips pluged into the surge protector, some serious power drain here, so does anyone know how my system stayed on when even my monitor went off?

[dawgtuff]

Electrical spikes(like lightning) can do some weird stuff.If your monitor was plugged into your surge protector,it's own protector probably cut it off.Did it come back on when you pushed it's power button,or did you reset the main circuit breaker first?
In any case,it's not advised to plug more than one strip into an outlet if your going to fill up the strip.Each home wall outlet is rated at 15 amps,this includes both receptacles.Actually,all the room outlets(generally) are on the same 15 amp circuit.If you daisy chain a bunch of srips with other appliances/lights/hi-fi,etc. your asking for trouble.
I'd advise you buy a decent protector w/backup for your 'puter system.The $ you spend can save you the $$$$$ you already spent.....catch my drift?......DawgTuff.

[BBA]

It was your PC's and your monitors power supply filtercapacitors that kept the PC running. These are devices that store electric charge and resist the change in voltage by design, which is what makes them effective for filter circuitry. A capacitor iskinda like a super high current battery that will discharge itself at a high current rate in it's effort to maintian voltage.

BBA

[KillerBug]

cool, I have a $10,000 warantee on the thing, and I read everything, nothing about pluging 2 extra power strips in, they are not surge protectors anyway. I actualy would love to have a surge get through both my house surge protector and my wall surge protector, New TV, New Scanner, New Speekers, New Monitor, New Motherboard, New printer, New hard Drives, New video card, new sound card, new scanner, new DVD, get my drift?