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more power questions...

Isn't having two surge protectors plugged into the same outlet (or
the same circuit for that matter... or the same house...) the same
as havign them daisy chained? Maybe not in the distant examples, but
the MOV is parallel to the outlet, so what's the difference between
having a strip plugged into another strip and having two strips
plugged into each other? either way, there are going to be two sets
of MOVs running across the lines. Is the significant thing here the
actual physical/electrical distance between the MOVs? So having
essentially two surge protectors plugged into my no-surge-protection
splitter is ok, even though it seemes electically identical to having
two surge protectors daisy chained?

Also, clipping the blue, cap-like thing out of my strip is ok,
right? Arrgh! Again, I hate to spam, but I don't think I'm the only
one here to wonder about this. Anyone else come to the same
conclusion here?

And more on-topic, exactly what is "star ground?" I don't quite get
why you'd need to run two ground lines to each module. 'splain? I'm
not 100% inept, so some techno-jargon is ok, but don't go too
far. ::grin::

-Geoff