>>The same is true of copiers - we put a copier into the office and blew out 2 offices' power when it went on. It was even worse than the Laser Jet II we had (OK, this was several years ago :-)
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>Funny thing about that - they work in a very similar fashion :-)
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>Really, any heavy-draw office equipment needs to be kept off of a UPS. Space heaters are another pet peeve in my office. As a general rule of thumb in my office, PCs, monitors, modems, hubs and the like go on the UPS - the things that need to stay running to give you a chance to undergo an orderly shutdown in the event of a power failure. Anything else goes on a line conditioner.

True - and you also have to check the circuits and which plugs are wired to which circuits. A local client blew out the server UPS when she plugged 3 space heaters into 3 wall sockets that happened to be on the same circuit as the servers. No damage to the server because of the UPS but the whole system was down while someone paged the office manager who had the only key to the room with the circuit breakers. Wonder what they would have done if said OM had been on vacation?