audiomuze;498851 Wrote: > I'm hoping folks can shed some light on precautions they've taken/ can > be taken to eliminate/ minimise the threat of damage to one's PC, > network infrastructure, Squeezeboxen & other hi-fi equipment. Every > time a thunderstorm is imminent I unplug the telephone line from my > router and IP phone, unplug all of the abovementioned from the wall > sockets and wait the storm out. The incoming mains also has lightening > suppression installed for each phase. While it's obviously effective > it's a pain in the butt because it always seems to coincide with > listening time. What are my options? Oh, merry Christmas :-)
It is my opinion and experience that the best thing is to eliminate a ground path for Lightening. Again my opinion on this is to use something like Richard Gary Power Company 220V Substation wired for 220. If its wired for 120, then there is a path to ground. By wiring so the transformer has 2 hots there is no path for Lightening to get to a ground via ones equipment. This also has huge advantages for ones equipment as in no line sag. Power Strips are the worst things in the world if they have MOV in them. These devices take a few strikes and then are useless and there is no indication that the surge strip is no longer trying to protect anything. One less expensive route then RGPC products is to use a product called 'Brick Wall' (http://www.brickwall.com/) (warning, only order directly from the company there are scammers selling a box that looks like theirs but doesn't have the coils and components inside, just some cheap MOVs and a path to ground). These can also be placed around the house as they are outlet specific. Yes more expensive then most surge protector, but Brick Wall's are not surge protection they are Lightening protection. I have not lost a single piece of equipment protected by RGPC or Brick Wall. We use Brick Wall to protect the PCs at our cellular sites that take up to 200 strikes a storm during the summer thunderstorm season. Yes the towers have the best Lightening protection money can buy, but when you're the highest thing on top of the mountain, you're going to take strikes! -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73008 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
