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Re: [PLUG] surge protectors
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On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> 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 ?
By the time the electrical surge reaches your computer, it's spent alot of
its energy, and it's pretty much reaching your computer by virtue of
travelling along a conductor (you'll notice that things adjacent to the
power cord don't sustain electrical damage). By the time the pulse has
reached your computer, it's usually stoppable.
In that vein, I would highly recommend that if you do use a surge
protector for your very important computer, that you buy one that doesn't
use a breaker. Instead you should get one that, basically, melts its
insides (i.e. turns itself into a rather permanent insulator). These tend
to have much better protective capacities and response times.
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON, Video Operations
mryan@netaxs.com | Convention of Otaku Generation
http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/
No, I don't hear voices in my head;
I'm the one that tells the voices in your head what to say.
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