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Surge protectors in series
On Sun, 10 May 2009 09:48:36 -0700 (PDT), westom
wrote: On May 10, 1:47*am, bud-- wrote: Service panel suppressors are a good idea. But from the NIST guide: "Q - Will a surge protector installed at the service entrance be sufficient for the whole house? A - There are two answers to than question: Yes for one-link appliances [electronic equipment], No for two-link appliances [equipment connected to power AND phone or cable or....]. Which is why all those incoming utilities must be properly earth - ie 'whole house' protectors. Did he forget to mention phone lines already have a 'whole house' protector install for free at every home? And that is point. Every incoming wire must be earthed. AC electric is the missing protection and the source of most all surge damage. Numbers from the IEEE Standards. A properly earthed 'whole house' protector provides 99.5% protection. From that IEEE Standard: Still, a 99.5% protection level will reduce the incidence of direct strokes from one stroke per 30 years ... to one stroke per 6000 years ... Massive protection at $1 per protected appliance using a 'whole house' protector. For an additional 0.2% protection, bud recommends spending $5000 on obscenely profitable plug-in protectors. bud even forgets what his sources also say: Page 42 Figure 8. Without that 'whole house' protector, the 0.2% protecton can, instead, contribute to appliance damage. Without a 'whole house' protector and upgraded earthing, a $25 or $150 power strip protector can even earth a surge 8000 volts destructively through adjacent appliances. Page 42 Figure 8. Why does bud avoid that fact? Profits at risk. Where is this power strip spec that claims protection? Why does bud, whose income is promoting these devices - why does he still not provide those numeric specifications? Because no plug-in protector claims that protection. "Protectors in series" assumes protectors will somehow stop and absorb what three miles of sky could not even stop. So many long half truths from bud combined with insults .... and he still cannot find even one numeric specification that actually claims protection. A protector is only as effective as its earth ground. Either surge energy is absorbed harmlessly in earth OR it finds destructive paths to earth via appliances. "Protectors in series" will stop what three miles of sky could not? Nonsense. Even power strips connected three miles in series will stop what three miles of sky could not stop. A protector is only as effective as its connection to earth. No earth ground means no effective protection. Page 17 his NIST citation: The best surge protection in the world can be useless if grounding is not done properly. No earth ground means no effective protection - no matter how many scam protectors are connected in series. Cue twilight Zone theme music... |
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Surge protectors in series
westom wrote:
On May 10, 1:47 am, bud-- wrote: Service panel suppressors are a good idea. But from the NIST guide: "Q - Will a surge protector installed at the service entrance be sufficient for the whole house? A - There are two answers to than question: Yes for one-link appliances [electronic equipment], No for two-link appliances [equipment connected to power AND phone or cable or....]. "Protectors in series" assumes protectors will somehow stop and absorb what three miles of sky could not even stop. Because of his religious blinders poor w can't figure out how plug-in suppressors work. As the IEEE guide explains for anyone that can think, it is by clamping. A protector is only as effective as its earth ground. No earth ground means no effective protection w's religious mantras protect him from conflicting thoughts (aka reality). w just repeats the same drivel, as if repetition makes it true. Still never seen - anyone that agrees with w that plug-in suppressors are effective. (Because no one agrees with w.) Still never answered - simple questions: - Why do the only 2 examples of protection in the IEEE guide use plug-in suppressors? - Why does the NIST guide says plug-in suppressors are "the easiest solution"? - Why does the NIST guide say "One effective solution is to have the consumer install" a multiport plug-in suppressor? - How would a service panel suppressor provide any protection in the IEEE example, pdf page 42? - Why does the IEEE guide say for distant service points "the only effective way of protecting the equipment is to use a multiport [plug-in] protector"? - Why did Martzloff say in his paper "One solution. illustrated in this paper, is the insertion of a properly designed [multiport plug-in surge suppressor]"? - Why do your "responsible manufacturers" make plug-in suppressors? - Why does "responsible" manufacturer SquareD says "electronic equipment may need additional protection by installing plug-in [suppressors] at the point of use"? - Where is a source that says protection is "inside every appliance"? - How do you protect airplanes from direct lightning strikes? Do they drag an earthing chain? And (with some overlap): 1 - Do appliances and electronics typically have some built-in surge protection, eg MOVs? Yes or no. 2 - If the answer to 1 is yes, which we all know to be the case, then how can that surge protection work without a direct earth ground? 3 - How can aircraft be protected from surges, caused by lightning or static in the air, since they have no direct earth ground? For real science read the IEEE and NIST guides. Both say plug-in suppressors are effective. -- bud-- |
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