Common sense suggests and a quick Google search will confirm surge
protectors and UPSs will not protect equipment from lightning strikes.
'... average 3 mile-long lightning strike is one billion to ten billion
joules'.
A good quality power bar with a surge protector, the APC Essential
SurgeArrest 6 Outlet 10 Foot Cord, 120V, for example, has a 'surge
energy rating 1080 joules'. 'A common surge protector will stop voltage
spikes and surges, but not the violent, catastrophic burst of current
from a close lightning strike'.
(The above information was collected from the internet, confirming my
suspicions)
--
Albert Peres
afpe...@3129.ca
416.660.0847 cell
---Gabe Menezes wrote ---
QUESTION: Don't they have surge protector adaptors in Goa?
--- augusto pinto wrote ---
/...Your electrical implements will get burnt through electrical surges if
you//don't pull your plugs out./
