On 8/19/05, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:47:25PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > It wasn't a one-time shock but a continues electric current felt any time > > I touched the serial port. > > Sounds like an MOV to me.
What's that? > > > "Luckily" my room in that apartment was across the wall from the kitchen, > > so I drilled a hole in the wall and connected the ground of the socket > > to the kitchen's tap (I think I also replaced the socket on that > > opportunity). > > Good advice if it works, most Israeli cold water supply pipes are plastic :-( I connected to the tap itself (on the "Battary") - so the hot water system was "in the loop", wasn't it? BTW - in another house I stayed in the electrician called by the landlord before we moved in connected the ground to a main pipe which went through the back balcony. This also worked (according to my gadget). > They can be ordered from the U.S. The model you want is called a EURO-4. > It takes a standard plug like on a computer power supply and has 4 sockets > like the ones that computers used to have for monitors. Thanks for the info. Do they come also with phone line protectors? Would be a shame to protect your computer from electric shock through the AC network only to fry it (or even just the ADSL modem) through the POTS network. > Not necesarily, the cheap UPS don't have any surge protection in them I admit I'm not an expert but from what I learned, "on-line" UPS's have this protection by their design, that's why I mentioned "on-line". They are also the more expensive ones. Correct me if I'm wrong.. Cheers, --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
