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Old 02-04-2011, 11:42 AM   #15174
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Lightning is the main issue here, the brown outs are a pain but not that big an issue.

Kenny do the surge protectors really work to protect against lightning? We have fiber optic into our place, from the pole, I thought I was so smart when we ordered it, no more worries about lightning I thought, except the fiber optic has a thick stainless steel stiffener, so much for no lightning. Any way to surge protect from the router to the computer?
Yes and no. A close direct hit is pretty going to fry anything and just the bypass energy/surge will do most electronics in.

The only sure way -- as Betty said -- is to uplug and disconnect things completely.
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