>First of all, telephone loops aren't grounded. We were hit by lightning >in 1998 and it fried all of the phones. There were burn marks coming >out of the jacks, no kidding.
When we recently remodeled I found a carbon block arrestor on my phone line. I replaced it with a solid state model for about $35. Somewhere I read about how far into the house the voltage spike will travel based on the clamping time of the arrestor. The electronic model limited it to just a few feet. The old arrestor let the surge travel over 100 feet -- not too useful. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
