On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:45:05PM +0530, sreangsu acharyya wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> Mario Da costa rearranged electrons thusly:
>> > as power supply remember lightning is not very choosey) If your wire is
>> > still (knots are imperative) long enough, wind or coil it tightly
>> > together, more the coils better the protection. This will make the surge
>
>> This would basic inductor coil... Not a bad idea.
>
>ummm ....dont we need a capacitance rather than inductance to ground the
>surge. I guess that depends whether its the voltage or the current which
>kills a modem. A high enough inductance should cause the voltage to drop
>before the modem. Whereas the capacitor should take out the surge
>component of the current. Have to redo the physics book ;(
>
All this is going over my head :-) [ Poor commerce graduate - physics etc.
is childhood memory :-) ]
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