<div>On 5/26/07, Ian Pascoe <<a href="mailto:softy.lofty.ilp@btinternet.com">softy.lofty.ilp@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Robin You've a number of alternatives - as always - and it depends on what you got to spend. Firstly, looking at the mains supply.  If you're in such an en-lightening area, unless your place is on top of a hill, I would have thought you'd want to protect everything, so get an electrician to install a protection unit between the meter and the distribution board.  Alternatively, and perhaps in addition, add surge protection to your mains outlets using plug ins. BT provides Line Conditioning Units for exactly your scenario - although I don't know if they're compatible with BB / ADSL. Alternatively, belkin, I think, makes a 4 gang socket surge protection with an inbuilt telephone socket. Normal disclaimer applies to all above. Oh, and of course the other option is to move! Ian -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a>]On Behalf Of Robin Menneer Sent: 25 May 2007 21:30 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing lightning strike & surges On 5/25/07, luxxius <<a href="mailto:luxxius@googlemail.com">luxxius@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > > Call me picky, but isn't it true that you can't *prevent* lightning > > strikes, only try to get them to hit something other than your > > aerial/golf club/tree/car/house? > > My only experience of a lightning strike was lightning hitting the > telegraph pole down the street, sending a big pulse down the phone line, > and frying the fax modem on my motherboard (along with its nearby > on-board network and the graphics).  I guess surge protection wouldn't > help with that sort of thing? > > By the way, hello!  I'm a relative newcomer to Ubuntu (about four months > now).  I have Dapper running on my old Inspiron latptop (including > wireless on a Linksys card with Broadcom chipset, which I was very > pleased to get working in only a fortnight!). > > And now I've put Feisty on an old AMD box, and recently as a dual boot > on my Dell Dimension (with XP, which I keep for occasional bits of stuff > that are still easier for me on XP, till I get better at GNU/Linux). > > But I find I rarely use that other OS at all;  and I've been sort of > surprised to find that I don't miss it, and - contrary to long-term > brainwashing (20 years, I guess) - I don't actually need it!  Freedom! > > Ubuntu's really good - but I have to be careful not to bore my kids and > friends to death going on about it! > > -- > Diana > >We've sat watching a fireball from lightning in the same room, frying the Orange box which took 5 weeks to replace, followint innumerable phone calls.  And it is a bore switching everything off whenever there is a thunderstorm in the area.  What are the relative merits of the various means of protection ?   Robin > > > -- > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> > <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/"> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> > Thanks for advices.  On the mains side we have the necessary earth and voltage trips, and the earth trip works well in thunder storms, plunging us into darkness safely.  But is this device quick enough to protect my computers ?  We're at the end of a long rural line and so are unlikely to get voltage surges resulting from load changes.   It seems that a 13amp 4 gang socket with telephone protection as recommended on this list is a  reasonable course of action but can anyone tell me if they are one-shot and have to be replaced, or are resettable/automatic resetting ?  How reliable are they in protecting the phone input (broadband etc).  Another course of action is to spend out and get a power back-up which may contain its own protection?   Robin </blockquote><div>  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/"> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div>