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app103:
Any informed resident in FL knows what is essential for and what provides surge protection:
http://members.aol.com/gfretwell/ufer.jpg
-westom (June 06, 2009, 05:27 PM)
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Did you check that link before you posted it? AOL shut down member pages in October 2008 and deleted the contents of all accounts. Your link has been dead for the last 9 months and won't be coming back.
bob99:
Here's a couple of links on surge and transient.
http://www.cvel.clemson.edu/emc/tutorials/Transient_Protection/t-protect.html
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1155237,00.asp
Both are from the links at the bottom of the page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge_protection
My only point is that protection devices can weaken and not be as effective and some you won't know if they are still working.
It is good to be careful and make sure whatever you are using is in working order.
Even then, mother nature can still prevail. :)
MilesAhead:
Interesting side note: The server's battery backup is plugged into one of those cheap-O "Surge Strips" ... The breaker in the strip never tripped.
-Stoic Joker (June 06, 2009, 01:44 PM)
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I'm not an electronics expert but someone technically adept in electronics told me never to plug one surge protecting device into another. According to this dude, it's worse than having no surge protection at all. Some mumbo jumbo about wave forms or something. Just thought I'd pass it on. Maybe a search(not surge) will turn up the technical info if he was right.
cranioscopical:
Maybe a search(not surge) will turn up the technical info if he was right.-MilesAhead (June 06, 2009, 07:37 PM)
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Just make sure that information is current!
MilesAhead:
Maybe a search(not surge) will turn up the technical info if he was right.-MilesAhead (June 06, 2009, 07:37 PM)
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Just make sure that information is current!
-cranioscopical (June 06, 2009, 07:53 PM)
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I can see you just couldn't resist that pun!! :)
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