Mike Leone on Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:51:07 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] surge protectors


>As I was shutting things down for the night, I noticed the lights on my
>surge protector, and thought again that I need an ups.  Then I thought,
>wait, lightning is a spark that's so powerful that it will leap from the
>sky to the ground without a conductor.  What the fuck are you going to do
>to stop *that* in the space of a surge protector ?

There are special lightning-strike-protector units (honest!). This gets plugged into the wall; the UPS or surge protector gets plugged into it.



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