Consider this with lightning. It jumped thousands of feet through the air, it's going to go where it wants, that is the path of least resistance, which is a relative term since it just jumped through what most of us would consider a high resistance path. The trick is to give it what it wants, a low resistance path, but with such huge amounts of energy, you better know what you're doing when you invite it in.
As you pointed out, what we're really doing is protecting our equipment from the voltage spikes that are created when such an upset occurs on the electric grid. I'll do my part by continuing to not cause any upsets on the grid :-) Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "MegaZone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Ouch. Just goes to show the freaky paths the current can take.
