said by tschmidt:Ideally you want everything entering the house to go through a surge protector with a good connection to the building grounding system near where they enters the house: power, phone, Cable, antenna. That becomes the primary protector. Then another point of use protector near the equipment you are trying to protect.
If you can't find a UPS that provides protection for non-power stuff get a surge protector you can plug into the output of the UPS.
The value of a UPS is that is will protect the devices from voltage sags and outages.
/tom
voltage surges too, up to a point. also, they tend to have MOVs for further protection. P.O.U. series type surge protectors, where there is a coil in series with the line, greatly reduces the effects of lightning, where frequencies go up into the gigahertz range..
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