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Nonsense. UPS's don't pose any sort of serious fire risk. UPSs starting on fire are exceedingly rare. Sure, it's probably happened. People get hit by lightning
by bongodongobob 3y ago
Nonsense. UPS's don't pose any sort of serious fire risk. UPSs starting on fire are exceedingly rare. Sure, it's probably happened. People get hit by lightning too.
- silon42 3y agoI'd guess they are certainly safer than a laptop, but it depends on a manufacturer... (I've seen lots of "balooned" laptops, including many Macs)
- tristor 3y agoNot to be snarky, but UPS fires are one of the leading causes of datacenter fires: https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=UPS+Fire+datacenter&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=UPS+Fire+datacenter&ia=web
- bongodongobob 3y agoRight and data center fires are extremely rare. Think of how many UPSs are in the wild. The failure by fire rate is probably something like 0.000001%.