Anne, You're right that a surge can't physically protect against a direct lightning hit BUT: 1. You can then have your hardware fixed or replaced for free under a good unit's insurance protection (nope, doesn't help with data) 2. My house was hit years ago, I lost garage door opener, light bulb blew, phone/recorder in the kitchen fried, etc. but none of 2 PCs & 1 Mac were affected. FWIW... By the way, I don't recommend plugging a surge protector into a battery backup. There's no benefit of double protection like that, the way I understand it. Plugging a multioutlet strip into a surge though is a different story.
Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! --- Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> wrote: Eric, My whole set up is hooked to a surge protector which in turn is plugged into a UPS/surge protector, however as I understand it, if lightnig hits close enough it will fry them too. A surge protector cannot protect against a strong hit by lightening. Anne On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 03:25 PM, B. Eric Bradley wrote: > Not since I hooked 'em all up (cable connection included) to surge > protection/battery backups. APC battery backup units start at around > $40 and I sleep much easier. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
