novaflare
The Dragon Was Here
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join:2002-01-24
Barberton, OH
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Re: protection against poert surge-(lightning)
Only thing with a hope of stopping lighting is a whole house lightening arrestor. Even this wont help with a direct hit also wont help less your house is properly grounded. Simply put it the lightening hits the line in to your house or the pole your on you have at best a 50 50 chance of your stuff makeing it with out damage.
Now a best in class battery back up (xxxxva for xxxxva) with built in surge arrestor and whole house ligtening arrestor and good groun can turn that 50 50 in to more like 75% chance of your stuff surviving. My measly 300 va battery back up cost me damn near 300 bucks new. We have a whole house litenging arrestor replaced once and i had to replace my my ups as well. Nothing was damaged that was hooked up to the back up (acctually a few of them) but my cable tv box got smoked really nicely it was not on the back up.
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whocares
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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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TwistedLefty
join:2001-07-08
Excelsior Springs, MO
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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.
do yourself a favor and unplug when lightning is near. |
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Vamp
5c077
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join:2003-01-28
MD
 ·Verizon FIOS
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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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whocares
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oh ok, THANK YOU dadkinsi've never unplugged everything, always though surge protectors would guard again 'burnout or "burnup", "Jazzy"
what is that-Joules |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| reply to whocares
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!
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