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On 22 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0700, "Built_Well"
<Built_Well_Toyota@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>Bruce L. Bergman wrote:[/color]
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>> I'm surprised it didn't blow the UPS.[/color]
>
> Umm, I wasn't clear. Everything went bye-bye that
>day: the power supply, the motherboard, the UPS... The only
>survivor was the laser printer.[/color]

Sounds more like a lightning strike - and when that happens, all
bets are off.

Your only defense is to install a big whole-house lightning arrestor
at the main panel, and beef the hell out of your grounding and bonding
system so it has a way and a place to dump the surge.

And get your utility to beef up the lightning arrestors on the pole,
because that's the main path the surges follow in. Lightning doesn't
hit your house nearly as often as that nice tall power pole behind it.
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> I was thinking of plugging the television into the
>UPS so I wouldn't have to reset the TV's time--not that I'm
>wacky enough to actually watch the tube during a storm-created
>blackout [heh].[/color]

RTFM, or go buy a new TV - almost all the new gear on the market
reads a timecode on the PBS or Local Commercial broadcasts and sets
it's own clock. The flashing 12:00 is practically extinct.

--<< Bruce >>--