Re: UPS workaround?

On 6/15/26 15:16, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:35:24 -0400
> Eben King <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> This time I ordered a surge suppressor too,
>> because that's how I think this one died.  I live near Tampa.fl.us;
>> lotsa lightning here.
> 
> That's generally what lightning eats. Even if a suppressor appears to
> be working after a strike, it can be damaged and not do its job next
> time. I've had a phone answering machine confused after a strike but
> came back on rebooting. A later strike killed it. I had an even earlier
> machine, one with a cassette for recording, killed on the first one.

I really liked the double-cassette kind.  Too bad they went extinct.

> We are much more likely to see lightning down the phone line than on the
> mains. Not for much longer of course, the copper is going this year or
> next.

I think we're on FTTH for combo internet/phone, no CATV, no external 
antennae, so power and water are the only ways lightning can get in. 
You have to go half a mile to find aboveground power lines, so that helps.


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