Surge Protection

Thu Jul 22 18:51:29 UTC 2004

Polyphaser does make excellent surge supression gear they make it for all
communications services.  i.e. Broadcast Radio, television, cell sites,
gov't/military.

Being a ham I use their gear myself expensive but cheaper than a new rig.
Especially since the rig is connected to a structure designed to attract
electromagnetic fields.

                            Scott C. McGrath

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Mike Lewinski wrote:

>
> Daniel Senie wrote:
>
> > The cost of installing a surge protector is unlikely to impact your
> > bottom line. One successful lightning strike on the other hand will hurt
> > quite a bit, and probably happen at 4AM just to be more annoying.
>
> Yes... we had a strike hit a remote mountain POP via the T1. From the
> router it managed to propogate onto the switch and from the switch onto
> the connected hosts and caused a catastrophic failure. Fortunately the
> hosts mainly lost their NICs.
>
> We have since purchased some polyphaser surge protectors. Can't remember
> if this was the vendor or not:
>
> http://www.comm-omni.com/polyweb/t1.htm
>
> Google has +400 matches on the exact phrase "T1 surge protector"
>