RE: Surge protection

[Alan Schuetze <aschuetze@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try an isolation transformer or an expensive surge protector.  Surge
protectors use a series of Metal Oxide Varisters or (MOVs) to absorb the
excess energy.  These do work but are limited in how much energy they can
take also they tend to "wear out" and lose their effectiveness if you take
spikes often.  ISOBAR makes good ones.  More importantly make sure you have
"computer grade" grounding.  Just connecting your ground wire to the conduit
may pass a safety code inspection but a computer grade ground ensures that
the ground wire goes all the way back to your power box and then to a spike
in the ground.  There should be a way to do the same for your phone lines.

Good Luck,

Alan Schuetze

Magellan Software
The Leader In Document Mining Technology*
Tel: 949-784-8000  Fax: 949-784-8200
www.magsoft.com <http://www.magsoft.com> 

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