Re: My PC was hit with lightning and now Microcenter is looking at it.

Leythos <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In the 30 years I've been building networks and hardware, even with
just MOV's for protection, I've never had a device damaged by a
surge, and certainly none were damaged on a QUALITY UPS while other
devices on the same AC Line that were not protected were damaged.

So, again, and you can count on w_tom trying to dismiss all of this, a
Quality UPS would probably have saved his entire system.

"Would probably" I can agree with, adding "provided the strike wasn't
too direct."

But that's not what you originally said, but folks do make
mistakes--even the mighty Leythos.

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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