Re: [PLUG] surge protectors

["Tracy Nelson" <tnelson@fast.net>]

And if you do get one of these, make sure you replace it every few years.
The components in these break down a little every time you get a voltage
spike and eventually become unable to cope with a full-on lightning strike.
Don't wait for your little "protection" light to go out, 'cause then it's
too late.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael W. Ryan" <mryan@netaxs.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 09:46
Subject: Re: [PLUG] surge protectors


> 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
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> I'm the one that tells the voices in your head what to say.
>
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