[plug] re: ups

[Alan Howard]

why is it that a power supply isn't made that allows both 240v and 12v
opperation with auto switching and signaling to a serial port. it would not be
very difficult to design as the computer power supply is already a switch mode
type and modifying it to use both voltages is fairly straight forward. The same
also goes for the monitors power supply. This would make for more efficient
opperation as the power does not need to be converted to 240v then back to 12v,
5v, etc

regards
Alan Howard