On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:57:52 GMT, SSJVCmag
wrote:
On 9/22/05 6:30 AM, in article , "Arny
Krueger" wrote:
"nYcTracks" wrote in message
news:7wqYe.155564$084.149799@attbi_s22
I'm looking for three surge protectors to protect my home
studio. I live in an area that produces frequent violent
lightning storms.
Surge protectors for your whole house aren't that costly,
and form an effective first line of defense that may be all
you need. I have a friend who has one of those big houses on
a 10 acre plot in the country. He had some near strikes that
took out various electronic gear and appliances. He had an
electrician install a surge protector on the electrical
entrance to his house, and that was the end of lightning
storm damage for him. This was about 10 years ago.
We're a year into the new old house (1970-built) and it's a giant box of
"projects".. A known thing when we dove.
This neighborhood has underground power distro and perversely (to me
anyway) it has WAY worse power stability in storms than our previous place
that had more issues with tree-fall line damage than anything else. ANY time
there's a storm, power gets guaranteed flakey, often with momentary dropouts
and too often seconds-to-minutes-long full drops.
Wondering what a Real approach to solving this is.
Plans include a fully separate downstairs air system and small studio power.
PART DEUX:
The power in the house is INCREDIBLY noisey. Never seen the like from my
folks 1950 bricker or our previous 1930's cotton-wire wonder.
Contact your utility and ask them to put a monitor at your location,
realizing that they will only detect/fix problems outside the normal
UTILITY range. Blackouts, sustained Brownouts should fall into this
range. Anything lasting 1 minut or more outside the range of 105-125V
in the US is surley reason for "discussion". Contact the PUC if this
discussion is less than fruitful.
Do not expect :/ computer room grade power from them.