I've seen surge protectors for Ethernet. However, some time ago a co-worker's house was hit. They said that the damage was totally random. Some equipment plugged into the most expensive surge protectors was destroyed. Some equipment plugged into cheap surge protectors was fine. Some equipment not protected at all was fine as well. Their conclusion is that it was like they had no surge protectors at all. The damage was totally random.
It's pretty hard to stop an electrical charge that travels a mile or two over thin air... I'm not convinced that a surge protector will help. I don't think I'll buy anything but the most basic ones from now on. And it seems that most of my damage is caused by the power interruption, often accompanied by a fraction-of-a-second pulse of power again. This destroyed my last computer (connected into an expensive surge protector) and damaged my present one (lost onboard networking). -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36582 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
