Boy… ok. This is so frustrating! Ok so, I've been getting a whole lot of problems with the electrical grid here lately: spikes, surges, lows, brown-outs, all kinds of problems, it's terrible, short-circuiting things left and right. I have been afraid to even plug my laptop (Toshiba Satellite L300 Series) in at all to charge it. So I wanted to get a really good surge protector/battery back-up to protect it (it's really important to me, I'm a sentimental sort, and I don't want to just upgrade to a new laptop like everyone tells me, I'm very attached to this one!). So I do some research, the APC Back-UPS Network 40 450VA Battery Back-Up System BN4001 is the one I end up going with.
So I do all the stuff to get it set up, attach the battery, get it plugged in, turned on, all that, I go to actually try to plug my notebook's charger (which is, at this time, actually plugged in to the computer itself, mind you) into the UPS, and… it won't go in, can't get it to fit, there's sparks blasting out, what is going on here? I tried to plug in a different thing, with a three-prong plug, which seems to be the only thing it's designed to take, but my laptop power cord has a two-prong plug which I just can't get in, and what concerns me even more now is the sparking, does this mean my computer will have been damaged? I fear the worst. Please help, I would really, really appreciate any guidance right about now. At the end of my rope currently with all this! :(
Here are some images, which were requested to help visualize what I'm talking about: this is the UPS (not the exact model I have but really similar) http://sishardware.com/imgs/a/a/t/j/t/apc_back___ups_es_550_ups_330_watt_8_outlets_4_surge_be550r_easy_set_up_1_lgw.jpg and this is the laptop power cord http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Ef8gJpFsL.SX300.jpg
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