3:54 PMLloyd E. Sponenburgh
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There's no need to understand or remember EVERY SINGLE THING taught in
any school, just to accept advice and get surge arresters for your
circuitry like others do to avoid getting blasted. What do you use to
think with half of the time, anyway?

Uh, huh! Just "accept advice"... right. Don't remember what they taught
you for good reasons... right.

And find a Master Electrician if you want something like that.

Most guys who are successful at any technical endeavor don't think "half
the time", they think "all the time" on the job.

Fair enough.

Who said anything about NOT using surge arrestors?

If you had used a suitable surge suppressor and it failed then, causing all that damage, then that should look like a product liability lawsuit. Have you bothered to check into it?

(not that it's even my concern)