bud-- wrote:
Nate Nagel wrote:

Does anyone make a plug in suppressor that has TWO coax connections?
I just realized that I was considering running both cable and an
antenna connection to each TV in my house, but all the surge strips
that I have everything connected to only have connections for one coax
(I guess they assumed that someone would have either cable or an
antenna but not both...)


Seems like someone should make one....

There are supposed to be modular assemblies where you can add the
elements necessary for what you have. (I have not seen them.)

A possible kludge would be to have a short coax on the suppressor "in"
side to a cable entry ground block with the cable source connected to
the other side of the ground block. Bolt another ground block to the 1st
ground block and run the antenna through it. The voltage on the center
conductor of the antenna is not limited when doing this.

I'm beginning to re-think how to protect equipment that I really care
about. Perhaps Permalloy boxes?

Several times in the past few years I have lost equipment due to a
proximate strike. The most recent was when I was looking out the
window and saw lightning hit the chimney of the house across the street.
Numerous brick were "vaporized" and my theater system, several
computers and some other stuff all went belly-up. I had protection
against conducted surges, what I didn't have was protection at each
device against inductively coupled energy. My guess is a few million
amps and a fraction of a turn, all on the load side of the surge
suppressor. ugh!

Boden