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

[MD]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:19:24 +0100, Keith Marshall
<keith.d.marshall at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 25 July 2004 8:57 pm, Chris Lingard wrote:
> > 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.

This 8-way adaptor:
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=2501&productId=99763
has RJ11 and RJ32 (IIRC) surge protection, and theres a 4 way adaptor
that I got from argos (that I can't find on the website) which also
has RJ45 surge protection (or whatever 10/100 LAN is :D ), although
how a lightning strike would be able to find its way through a PSU,
mobo and an NIC and then another machine via a switch, I have no idea.
:)

Anyway, I thoroughly recommend surge protection for all expensive home
electrical equipment, especially in this part of the world.

-- 
Thanks,
-Matt Dancer <barodato at gmail dot com>