<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Any device, excepting an arc welder or a science demonstration, that is emitting electrical sparks needs to immediately be powered down and replaced.<br></div>This is a major safety hazard!<br></div>At minimum you are risking blowing out anything connected to power through this device, including the front end electronics of your UPS. There is also a significant risk of a device such as this causing a fire that could burn down your house and possibly even cost you your life, or the life of a loved one. If you think I'm engaging in over the top hysterics, talk to your local fire department and find out how many electrical fires they deal with and what they consider the potential for damage.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p>- - - - -</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">-"God is not fooled." - Eric Metaxa</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy<br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px">"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Dan Purgert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@djph.net" target="_blank">dan@djph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:33:03 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:<br>
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> [...] I can't imagine how or why but the switch in the power<br>
> block started spitting blue sparks. That's never good. I killed<br>
> everything with the button on the UPS and switched off the power block,<br>
> then pushed the button on the UPS to start it going again.<br>
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> [...]<br>
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Yeah, sparks coming out of electrical devices is never a good sign.<br>
Could be as simple as a bug (literally) in the works, if you were able to<br>
get it all working again.<br>
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Or am I misunderstanding the rest of your comment, and it's still shot?<br>
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