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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Lightening protection
- Date: 1 Apr 1996 06:15:37 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4jodsp$1if2@navajo.gate.net>
- References: <MODEMS-L%96032606062588@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> <315ade80.9883973@news.superlink.net> <315D3A5D.6534@smile.mv.com> <4jml50$4mci@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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- visan@ibm.net wrote:
- : In <315D3A5D.6534@smile.mv.com>, Marshall Richards <mcr@smile.mv.com> writes:
- :
- : Hi, There!...
- :
- : >Tom Snyder wrote:
- : >I strongly agree with you on the unpluging. It is the only way to
- : >absolutely protect your modem and pc from lightening surges or strikes.
- : >I lost a motherboard a few years back and know of one person that lost
- : >their modem and pc as a surge running in on the phone line.
- : >
- : >"Don't keep plugged"
- :
- :
- : Even in the case of a BBS line????......¿¿¿¿....=;)
- :
- : When you stay on-line, never have a storm?...=;)
- :
-
- I ran a BBS for 7 years here in Florida (the lightning capital of the US)
- and only damaged one modem (a USR HST that I had removed from the phone
- surge protector for testing and hadn't reconnected). If you don't get a
- direct hit, a phone surge protector should be adequate along with power
- surge protection for most situations. I would occasionally shut down the
- board during a storm because multiple power hits would cause more damage
- to the HD than anything else.
-
- I may have been lucky, of course, but the time I lost the HST I did not
- lose the DS that was on the 2nd line and my neighbors on 3 sides all lost
- phones, TV's, and VCR's (it was a direct hit to a neighbor's power and
- phone line feed).
-
- Oh, and I used cheap non-name power surge strips with phone surge
- protection purchased from MEI. I think I paid $12.95 each for them.
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