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Re: Lightning strike protection



Use a UPS to protect equipment from lightning strikes to the mains
supply.
Some UPSs have a connection to protect the phone line.  Not sure
whether this would protect against lightning or not.  If I have a
chance I'll check.
Andy the UPS man

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, James Fidell <james@c...> wrote:
> Guess who has broken stuff to replace this morning? :)
>
> We had a cheap phone die in the storms on Friday morning and somehow,
> though I can't see how, the switch port that my adsl router is
plugged
> into stopped working with a loud "pop" last night.
>
> So, before I move to asterisk and risk blowing up an entire PC, I
could
> really do with some sort of protection from lightning strikes on the
> phone lines (they run over ground, over the tops of hills, for about
> three miles to the exchange, so an easy target for lightning).
>
> Any recommendations?  Preferably avoiding moving house...
>
> James





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