Off-Topic: AC Power Surge Protectors???
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MrHodja
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AC Power Surge Protectors???
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6/27/2011 9:47:42 PM (updated 6/27/2011 9:48:02 PM)
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Mack, since you are using DSL, buy a surge protector that includes protection for your telephone line. Spikes can be induced on the phone cables as well as power cables. And don't get the cheap charlie type. I believe their effectiveness is measured in joules...the higher the number of joules, the better the protection.
If you eventually got your connectivity back, the good news is that the spike didn't fry any hardware. I was at the lake during that little weather event yesterday and it was a doozy...liquid version of a whiteout. Had just finished putting the felt on the newly installed (since Friday) roof on our cabin addition at 5:00 PM...and 45 minutes later the bottom dropped out. The roof didn't leak but we haven't put up any walls except for corner bracing, and a scaffold we inadvertently left just outside the room and under the eave provided a significant splash factor until it was moved. Come over and take a look sometime...it is actually starting to look like it might be habitable some day. I'll tell you, though, at one time there were five of us working on it, but through various forms of attrition, as of 2:30 yesterday it was myself and my older son putting on the second half of decking and all the felt...heat index 105 and NO clouds. Pretty brutal, but we both survived.
Cheers!
NH
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