"William Sommerwerck" wrote in
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"Cydrome Leader" wrote in message
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William Sommerwerck wrote:

Many years ago, PC and/or Byte (I forget which) used to test
suppressors.
If they failed to provide suppression, I assume the mag would have
said
so.

Hilarious, PC magazine is your source for the lowdown on surge
supression
devices?

It was, 20 years ago. I don't think you get the point, though.

So what is the point? John Dvorak wrote a story about surge
supressors and how they worked with his Cumulus 386 laptop and his
CompuAdd 486sx tower?

The point is that they were performing lab tests on the suppressors.
These tests included determining the clamping voltage. (I don't
remember if they were tested to destruction.) The tests were
presumably performed in accordance with industry-accepted standards.




"clamping" is a misuse of the word WRT surge protectors.
It misleads people,as in "david" s post.

"trigger voltage" might more accurate.

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