On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 11:34:12 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> wrote:

> On Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 1:02:58 PM UTC-6, sf wrote:
> > On Sat, 05 Dec 2015 11:09:42 -0500, Gary > wrote:
> >
> > > Julie Bove wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I was trying to save some money as I've been hit right and left with added
> > > > expenses. Luckily the computer repair wasn't as bad as I thought it would
> > > > be. They think the storms we've been having knocked out the power supply
> > > > and made the surge protector go bad.
> > >
> > > One thing I learned long ago...surge protectors only protect you for
> > > one time. After that, they are worthless. Most will start blinking the
> > > led to let you know they are used up and you need to replace it.
> >
> > Thanks, I didn't know any of the above. Are you talking about the
> > surge protector that's on the laptop cord or the one we plug
> > everything in to?
> >
> >
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> >
> > sf
>
> Surge protectors are a joke! Where's this alleged surge supposed to come from? Lightning? Do you know what lightning is? Big time static discharge!! Millions of volts of potential equalizing itself!! It's already ionized and traveled though hundreds maybe thousands of feet of AIR (an insulator), so nothing you're gonna put in a little box is gonna stop it!!
>

Not much lightening around here although we do have occasionally now,
thanks to climate change. If there was enough to matter, everyone
would have lightening rods on our homes. Did you put one on yours?


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sf