If there was a power strike, could you still use your computer?

Answer 1

No unless your electric questions charged my laptop so who knows

Answer 2

You can buy a device that will continue to supply mains power to your pc and its peripheral devices for a few minutes or hours after the normal mains supply has failed.
It's called a "UPS" or Un-interruptable Power Supply.
However, this device works by storing electrical power in batteries and so it will eventually stop working.
Though your pc and its peripheral devices use mains (or alternating) electrical power, the power has to be converted to direct current for use within the device.
This means that you could bypass this power-converting device and instead use direct current from a larger bank of batteries which might be "topped up" or trickle-charged from alternators driven by water powered turbine or by windmill or wave power.
This is starting to get a bit expensive and all-in-all it would be better to write to your MP or Senator and ask him to inspect some of our power stations closely to see how under-invested they have become over the past few years. You would be horrified at the condition of the generators that our modern lives depend on.

Answer 3

if like me you have a large U.P.S. Uninteruptable Power Supply then you could still use it and surf the net, phone lines don't use the same power supply your house does. during a blackout a few years ago the phone rang. have you ever tried to find the damn phone at night in total darkness, even worse the phone was upstairs and i was not! other wise as others have said laptop or inverter would work. worth noting, since i plugged the router into the ups i have not had to reset it! before it would get lost at least once a month!
due i suspect to so called brownouts you know when the lights flicker

Answer 4

You could get a generator and attach it to a Hamsters wheel. Then get several hamsters to run like the clappers till the power came back on. Other possibilities include a windmill in the garden, a waterwheel if you are near to a river, or even wire it up to a lampost. Guess the most likely thing is a no though.

Answer 5

You're thinking of phones. You can still use a phone when the power goes out. You can't use a computer because that requires power and when there's a power outage, there is no power, so you can't use the computer.

Answer 6

No, if your computer was directly hit by a lightning bolt that had traveled through the wires.

Yes, if your computer was unplugged, during the storm and was reattached to an UPS - Uninterruptable Power Supply or a backup generator if there was no power

Answer 7

If you're using a laptop with a battery, you may continue to use the computer until the battery dies. If you have a car charger that connects to your laptop, you can recharge the battery that way to prevent it from dying. You can also use a UPS to maintain power.

Answer 8

Only battery powered laptops.All other computers would be out of luck. Good evening D.

Answer 9

If you get a power inverter you'll be able to run your PC from a 12volt car battery but you'd have to keep charging it. On a fully charged battery it should run for approximately 3 hours depending on how much peripheral hardware you use.

Answer 10

Aside from the laptop's own battery. I can use an inverter, it changes 12v electricity from a car battery into 220v, although I don't know how long the car battery will last, lol.

There's always a generator too.

Answer 11

with this, it all depends on the variables. this includes the strength of the strike, and how old your computer is. a computer hooked right into a wall outlet would take more damage than one plugged into a surge protector. get back with more details, and i could help you further.