[Lincs] Surge Suppressors (was: Linux from Scratch)

[Keith Marshall]

On Sunday 25 July 2004 8:57 pm, Chris Lingard wrote:
> > IIRC, I bought a surge protecting plug top about 15 years ago,
> > for a total outlay of less than a tenner!
>
> Would this work when a spark, about one foot long, jumps
> out of the telphone socket?

Wow!!!  That must have been quite some lightning strike!

The device I have is a plug top with an integral choke coil, to shunt spikes 
on the mains electricity supply;  it would not protect against a spike 
travelling along the telephone cables.  However, when I worked for a company 
in the South African highveldt a number of years ago, I seem to remember the 
phone techs fitting similar devices on the connections between the telephone 
sockets and the modems -- we never lost one, in spite of the *very* severe 
thunder and lightning storms, which are almost a daily occurrence in that 
part of the world.

Best regards,
Keith.