[SunRescue] An intriguing idea...

[powerpcpro]

I have a client who UPSed everything. The dodo forgot to disconnect a phono
jack from his sound out port to his stereo. Well, when the lightening hit
his two-way radio antenna on his house and basically charged the electrical
system in his house to, let say at least 10,000v, it fried the living shit
out his stereo and his Mac 9500. It litterally blew out a chunk on the
motherboard where the jack plugged. the inside of the case was all black.
The moral of the story is that you should make sure everything is either
unplugged or on an UPS.

> From: "Eric Ozrelic" <erico at bendcable.com>
> Organization: Zen Networks
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:23:35 -0700
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] An intriguing idea...
> 
> 
>>>> Now I have plenty of time to gracefully shut down, or just leave it on
> and
>>>> tough out the storm (of course, I disconnect from the phone line).
> Helps
>>>> with uptime.
>> 
>> I have a line filter on my modem cable to make sure it handles
>> spikes/lightning.  It's actually a very good Panamax 4-outlet surge
>> suppressor with one hell of a guarantee on it. =-)
> 
> Nobody and nothing can guarantee against lightning. Maybe surges & spikes,
> but
> not lightning.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Eric Ozrelic
> aka ProjektSUN
> 
> 
> 
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