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'Black Box' at www.blackbox.com/
Huge free catalog available,free support,etc.
They have,or will make custom cables also,
that many may find useful.
I have no affiliation.
..Chris
Ron Augustine wrote:
> Your Cable company should be able to provide a device that will ground your
> Cable link in the event of a major power surge. If you live in a house
> where it is possible to drive a iron stake in the ground, the fix is fairly
> simple. If you live in a Condo, it's more difficult, but still possible.
> If your Cable company won't help-- do a search for the "Black Box" company
> -- I think they're somewhere in New York -- they have devices for this purpose.
>
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> At 10:19 PM 5/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >I got all the latest surge protectors for my computer, monitor, printer,
> >data feed box and modem. But the cable wire runs separately and goes into
> >the data feed box then to my serial port. If the cable company sends out a
> >burst of voltage to boost their transmission or lighting hits ten miles
> >away but sends a surge down the cable what will protect my computer from
> >that surge of voltage going into my serial port. Any ideas on something
> >that's sold for this kind of protection or is that in the data box already.
> >Seems to me this would be a large hole missing in my arsenal of protecting
> >my data and computer from surge corruption.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >
> >
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