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- Path: news.sas.ab.ca!karpo
- From: karpo@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca ()
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Lightening protection
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 07:23:38 GMT
- Organization: Edmonton Freenet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Message-ID: <4jaqdq$d6o@news.sas.ab.ca>
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- : 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..
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- This may sound strange but I've seen it work. Tie about 5 or 6 knots in
- your telephone cord. (between the modem and the jack) When the lighting
- hits it will get transfered through the knots and they seem to stop it.
- This will kill the cord but will save your modem.....
-
- If you want to spend some cash there are supressors for phone lines. You
- can also get suppressors with power and phone connections.
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