<div>On 5/27/07, Neil Greenwood <<a href="mailto:neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.com">neil.greenwood.lug@gmail.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;"> On 26/05/07, Robin Menneer <<a href="mailto:robinmenneer@gmail.com">robinmenneer@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > 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 Hi Robin, The earth/voltage trips should be fast enough to protect your computers, at least the power supply side of the equation. If you're happy with the power supply protection, you might be able to find a phone line protector that is cheaper than the combined power/phone extension lead. As Nik suggested, try asking a qualified electrician for advice. The advantage to using something like the multiway extension lead in you situation is that you get phone line protection too, and that (at least with my Belkin one) the manufacture offers a guarantee if your equipment gets damaged while using one properly (<tongue-in-cheek>What have the Romans ever done for us</tongue-in-cheek>). And one last thing, my Belkin extension lead has 6 sockets, so they are available in smaller and larger sizes. Hwyl, Neil.</blockquote><div> Ta.  You don't happen to know if the extension lead  sockets are one-shot or  resetting , (phone-wise and/or power) ?   Robin </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> </blockquote> </div>