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This is a real problem. I lost a BMI box and the serial port to which
it was connected due to a spike carried by the cable, along with a TV
and a VCR.
How did I eliminate other causes, you might ask. Everything else
is on power protection equipment, including the power to the BMI
box. Nothing else was damaged. The damage was obvious immediately
after a lightening strike.
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.
Cable companies are not necessarily experts, but mine said there is
no such device that is worth having. However, some other answers
have made suggestions of devices to try.
> If you live in a house
> where it is possible to drive a iron stake in the ground, the fix is fairly
> simple.
Does not necessarily work, mine is (and was) grounded that way by
the cable co.
> 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.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> 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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J. Rodney Grisham, Ph.D. RevTech Industries, Inc.
E-mail: grisham@xxxxxxxxxxx Houston, Texas USA
Phone: (281)493-9221
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