Hi All,
This is a very interesting thread. I live in Thailand which is probably
more prone to somewhat more extremes in current voltage than perhaps most
other parts of the US and Europe. The system that I use, although I am not
sure that it is foolproof, is on the first electrical connection, is an APS
battery-controlled surge protector plus a strip surge controller on each
Mac. I have three Macs all on a network protected by the first line of
defence of the APS plus the secondary line of defence of the strip surge
protectors. So far, over three years, this has proved to be very
effective. While having three Macs (plus peripherals, printers, zip
drives, external modems etc.) drawing power from one electrical point would
seem extreme, I have found it to be very effective in preventing the kinds
of problems that some listers have had with power surges. So far, over
three years, I have had no problems at all (Is that the call to apply
Murphy's Law???)
Cheers
Roger
--On Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:20 PM -0700 Clark Martin
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>> 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?
>
> How many people will even think of the power strip warranty when looking
> at zorched equipment?
>
> Check the warranty on one of the power strips. Odds are it doesn't cover
> much. Many warranties are designed to protect the manufacturers bottom
> line.
>
>
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