[ubuntu-uk] Preventing lightning strike & surges

[Robin Menneer]

On 5/25/07, Dominic Forrest <dominic.forrest at ntlworld.com> 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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