Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeffrey, Put an UPS/Inverter of a reputed make. Those surge suppressors supress nothing!! Cheers Jayanand Jeffery Smith wrote: >This morning, I got up from the computer and went to church at about >11:00am. I left the computer on as well as my printer and Nikon film scanner >(I usually don't do that, but I was running late). When I arrived back home, >my mother in law told me that there was no electricity. I went to the >circuit breaker box, and about half of the circuit breakers had been >tripped! That made me a bit sick. The entire neighborhood was without power, >and there had obviously been a huge surge before the power went down. I paid >big bucks to have a surge supressor installed for the ENTIRE HOUSE. It is >installed on the circuit breaker box. > >Entergy (the power company) came out and rewired some of the power lines. >Everything came up except my office. The circuit breaker would not engage. I >unplugged everything in my office, and the circuit breaker did engage. I >slowly started plugging things back in, but when I tried to plug in the >cable going to all of my computer-connected stuff, it tripped the breaker >again. I examined the surge suppressor strips, and every one of the three >was cooked! With black sooty stuff on them, and smelling like an electrical >fire. I made a mad dash for the hardware store for more suppressor strips, >and slowly started plugging things back in. Ahhhhhh...........everything >seems to be okay. > >But I have little faith in surge suppressors now. The one protecting the >house didn't seem to work. The one attached directly to the outlets on the >wall didn't seem to work. The cheapest ones, the $10 surge suppressor strips >that my computer, printers, scanners, hard drives, etc. are plugged into >burned up. I guess that means they DID work. Leaves me with a bit of a sick >feeling inside. The more expensive they were, the crappier they worked. > >Jeffery Smith >New Orleans, LA >http://www.400tx.com > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >