TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: usr_modems
to: Steven Anderson
from: Richard Town
date: 1996-02-21 20:12:02
subject: Destruction

-=> Quoting Steven Anderson to James Redding <=-

 SA> Well, when Lighting jumps though the sky for how many hundred meters
 SA> it  does, its not going to stop at a little Surge or 'Lighting'
 SA> Protector...

They're more than spark gaps you may have seen used in the MIL...
But have heard tales of them changing a 'phone line's characteristic
impedance resulting in lower connects.  Has anyone ever made a successful
claim on the one offering "insurance"?

rgdZ
Richard

--- FMail/386 0.98a
* Origin: PackLink - Home of Zoom_Modem 01812972486 (2:254/235)
SEEN-BY: 50/99 78/0 115/500 623/630 635/503 544 711/410 413 430 808 809 932
SEEN-BY: 711/934 712/515 713/888 714/906 800/1 7877/2809
@PATH: 254/235 441/80 255/1 25/10 254/153 106/2000 396/1 3615/50 115/258 25
@PATH: 115/500 50/99 711/808 809 934

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.