On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, James Button wrote:
While I don't know of any particular device,
I worked for a company who had 'optical relays' installed for
their digital comms lines -
shame it didn't work when they got a lightning strike !
NOTHING works with a (almost) direct lightning strike ! Those
million volts have been traveling through miles of air. It will
jump across the small gap (including the "isolated" optical
gap) created when the protection device blows. Actually it will
probably fuse [no pun intended :) ] the device into "one solid
mass".
However, I'd have thought that for simple surge protection,
you'd be looking at any simple plug-in mains socket, rather
than needing something for the actual digital communications
cable
Communication lines should be protected *before* they enter any
device since these lines can also carry voltage surges from
lighting strikes some distance away. Cable/DSL/phone lines
should have surge protection devices before entering any
Cable/DSL/analog modem.
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