At 11:19 PM -0700 8/14/01, David Allen wrote:
>The only surge protector that protects against lightning is to be
>unplugged from
>the wall. (including modems, etc.) A surge protector can not stop the surge
>caused by a lightning strike and the circuit breaker takes miliseconds to pop
>after the surge has passed through to the computers.
Although I would tend to agree with this, how can some of these
relatively cheap surge protector / power strips offer tens of
thousands of dollars compensation for damaged equipment caused by
their failed device?
_
Andrew
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