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- From: {OfficeLAN Customer} hansen <mark_a_hansen@ccm.jf.intel.com>
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- Subject: Re: Lightening protection
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 19:14:46 GMT
- Organization: intel
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- Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT%TREARN.BITNET@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> wrote:
- >Now that I bought expensive modems for my BBS, I want to make sure nothing
- >happens to them :) How can one protect a couple of USR Courrier's
- >"relatively cheaply" ? I need some sort of phone line surge suppressors
- >I guess; that would enable me to sleep thru stormy nights..
- >
- >Thanks! -turgut
- >
-
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- Any modem sold legally in the USA had to pass FCC part 68 testing which
- includes several surge tests which simulate a "minor" lightning strike.
-
- Sadly, safety to the user and prevneting damage to the phone company are
- primary concerns here -- if the equipment does not work after the test,
- it CAN still pass Part 68 in some situations depending on the failure.
- As a result, there are many modems out there which are not lightning
- proof.
-
- Your best protection is to unplug the RJ-11 jack from the wall when the
- modem is not in use.
-
- ...mark
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