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join:2003-01-28
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Re: protection against poert surge-(lightning)
said by dadkins  :All the "Protectors" you buy and purchase are for line surges and spikes. Lightning will usually fry even those! Seeing as lightning is jumping 2-20 miles to create a strike, some little box on your line isn't going to slow it down too much.  Best thing to do is when there is a storm, disconnect your valuable electronics from *ALL* connections. Power, cable, DSL - all of them! Yeah it's like the people that think the rubber on their tires is going to protect their car from lightning... If the multi million volt arch makes it all the way from the sky, it is not going to have any trouble crossing the mere 1~ foot gap from the car to the ground.
Your best protection from lightning is the ground, some type of full home protection.
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TwistedLefty
join:2001-07-08
Excelsior Springs, MO
| nearby lightning strikes have fried motherboards and routers on my systems 2 times in the last 5 years, these systems were protected by APC units and i was only able to save hard drives, memory, vidcards.
my cable lines and house electric connections are fully grounded, nearby strikes will follow the lines and jump gaps easily.
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whocares
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join:2003-07-26
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| wow thank you 2k, now I know or "think" i know what to hook up to the UPS, jazzy
As far as deciding what to connect to which UPS, I generally adhere to a 'one computer, one UPS' policy.
Each computer has its own UPS, that makes sure that each gets maximum benefit of the battery when power does go out.
Only things usually connected to the UPS sockets are the CPU and the monitor (got to keep the CPU running, and need the monitor to see the screen to shut down smoothly).
Peripherals such as external disk drives also get a hookup to the UPS side of the unit.
Peripherals like printers and powered speakers only get connected to the sockets with surge suppression only - NOT the UPS side.
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