Hey all.. forgive the "blast from the past".. for some reason a bunch of emails showed up as new, but in reality, were from a long time ago.. Jim, W6RMK ______________________________________________
Whole house protects the big gear like AC compressors, HVAC blowers, for sensitive electronic gear like your HDTV, Ham Radio, PC you are required to installed end-point surge protectors. I put all th
Jim and fellow Tower Talk members: That message is kind of weird because I don't even use the WW5L@gte.net address to send e-mails and haven't in many months since I switched from dialup to DSL. I wo
I see there is a "whole House" Surge protector at Harbor Freight LOT NO. 96822 on sale for 99 bucks, says it is good up to 70kA with lifetime warranty up to $25,000. Mike, K6BR Jim and fellow Tower T
I have had excellent results with the following items made by Cutler-Hammer: SurgeTrap CHSPMAX (AC power lines) SurgeTrap DHW4PT (handles up to 4 Telco lines) SurgeTrap DCXCAB2 (handles up to 2 cable
Not really.. A entrance panel transient suppressor doesn't know what kind of load there is. And most things like consumer PC power supplies can actually take a pretty good sized transient because the
ALmost certainly my email client was the problem, and me not looking at the date on the mail which showed up as "unread"... Jim _______________________________________________ _______________________
I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has ever collected on one of those warranties. Last time I looked at the fine print, it was pretty shaky.. You send us (at your expense) the equipment which is
The one on sale at Harbor Frieght is Cuttler-Hammer, Surprise Surprise Mike I have had excellent results with the following items made by Cutler-Hammer: SurgeTrap CHSPMAX (AC power lines) SurgeTrap D
Who said I bought cheap UPS gear, haha. Yes, your points are well taken. Been there... spent plenty of time running on NOC UPS for a few minutes till the gen got up to speed...hate having the severs
Well Jim, they pretty much all say the same thing, I often wonder if anybody has tried to claim. The unit at Harbor Freight is made by Cuttler-Hammer though, so they might stand behind their product.
Can someone explain how these whole-house surge suppressors are installed? I've looked at illustrations of several and, benighted as I am, I don't see how they are installed. Kim Elmore N5OP ________
My "whole house" surge suppressor is installed in a separate outdoor enclosure located right next to my outdoor 200A main breaker service entry loadcenter. The surge suppressor is fed from the loadce
They're installed at your service entrance (main breaker).. 3 wires, 1 to each hot, 1 to the neutral/ground (since at the service entrance, neutral and ground are bonded together).. Formfactor wise..
Jim, et. al: In a related matter about 35+ years ago my XYL Cheryl (WY5H) and I were invited for a "free dinner" at one of our neighbors' homes for a "demonstration" on some kind of power "smoothing"
A good "whole house" surge protector is a very good way to protect against lightning and other transients coming in on the power line. 99'9% of all local surge protection uses MOVs. MOVs are LOUSY su
I'm no expert on this, but it seems to me that if you put a fuse ahead of an MOV, it will simply blow the fuse uneventfully. I used to work for a marine radio company (Narco Konel) and we had crowbar
I think most local power companies offer the whole-house surge protectors. Call them and ask. K4ROZ --Original Message-- From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.co