[sdiy] Isolation transformer question..

[KA4HJH]

>This is not _quite_ related but a few months ago lightning struck near my
>girlfriends house and it ruined their network hub and 3 ethernet cards (and
>a printer?) but the computers seemed to survive the ordeal fortunately.  I
>just wanted to mention that, since it hadn't occured to me to protect
>against power surges coming from my internet connection.

Every time there's a thunderstorm around here the people I used to work for
make a killing repairing sateliite dish systems and computers with blown
modems. Haven't heard any stories about DSL or cable yet but...you get the
idea.
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Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

"If I can't be God I don't want to play"--Aleister Crowley