On 5/25/07, Dominic Forrest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > luxxius wrote: > > Alan Pope wrote: > > > >> Call me picky, but isn't it true that you can't *prevent* lightning > >> strikes, only try to get them to hit something other than your > >> aerial/golf club/tree/car/house? > >> > > > > My only experience of a lightning strike was lightning hitting the > > telegraph pole down the street, sending a big pulse down the phone line, > > and frying the fax modem on my motherboard (along with its nearby > > on-board network and the graphics). I guess surge protection wouldn't > > help with that sort of thing? > > > snip... > > Don't be so sure - my father lived in a remote part of the Highlands of > Scotland and had 5 (yes five!) modems fried. I then bought him a > combined power/phone lightning surge protector and never had another > problem! > > > Dom > Don Was the protector one of those 13amp 5 (?) way blocks with in/out phone sockets ? Are they one-shot jobs, in that you have to replace them after a strike or surge, or do they reset `? Robin
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