Leave pc on during a thunderstorm good idea..??
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Rastalovich
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name='Toxcity' said:
There was some kind of "act of god" ruling going on some years ago that got insurance companies out of some loop hole - dunno if that still exists.
Lightening will jump from a socket to an unplugged.. plug.
Thing is really, there aint anything u can do to safeguard everything 100%, but u can push as close to that as u can to do ur bit.
Lol whatever for mate? I love a good storm so long as it doesn't destroy anything of minename='Chris1303' said:
@ Rast: Yes the 'Act of God' one gets bandied around here a bit too as you can well imagine.
Yes it can, but you'd have to be terribly unlucky. If it can jump the 30cm from the socket on the wall to the plug on my PSU cable then it deserves a chance to fry something lol. All our stuff is covered by our contents insurance anyway.
Rastalovich
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name='PV5150' said:Lol whatever for mate? I love a good storm so long as it doesn't destroy anything of mine
@ Rast: Yes the 'Act of God' one gets bandied around here a bit too as you can well imagine.
Yes it can, but you'd have to be terribly unlucky. If it can jump the 30cm from the socket on the wall to the plug on my PSU cable then it deserves a chance to fry something lol. All our stuff is covered by our contents insurance anyway.
hehe yeah, kinda remember some company brandishing the "act of god" thing at him and he replied "what is god ? I don't believe in god" and so on..
30cm ? I was thinking 30 feet. A smaller lab experiment is that thing where u have 2 electrodes and produce an arcing spark between them. That`s about 30cm or less I think. Lightening is obviously a more massive scale and less controllable.
name='Jim' said:
I`d be inclined to read the UPS paperwork to check the guarantee doesn`t just cover "as a result of power loss".
Small print aye.
That clause always confuses me, but i think it's best shown in Bill Bailey's acts of God skit
I never unplug mine, but hopefully the lightning will pas through the neighbours house first, he has a massive cb aerial on his roof.
I never unplug mine, but hopefully the lightning will pas through the neighbours house first, he has a massive cb aerial on his roof.
I have a couple of these badboys. Think at the time they were about £15 each. Got them for all my computer gear, TV, DVD and PS3 to plug into as if there happened to be a spike or a strike then the whole lot could have gone.
They offer £175k warranty which does include lightning in the T&C which is only a 2 page PDF
Ebuyer price now.
They offer £175k warranty which does include lightning in the T&C which is only a 2 page PDF
Ebuyer price now.
gotmaxpower
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I think its about time I invest in some surge protectors, I don't even know what they are, surely that can't be too good. 
FarFarAway
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All my kit is on the top end Belkin Gold Surgemasters
name='Bungral' said:
Problem is with that multi-plug thing is that it sends any spike to earth.. which if you have spikes in your system alot... with fridges turning on and so on it can trip the house. Or at least that is my experience.
I know that is what they are designed to do.. but for the UK I think it is OTT.
FarFarAway
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Not if you value your PC it's not tbh
Yeah not OTT at all... I had a surge and it blew a HDD, GFX, Mobo and PSU all in the same computer. Granted the PSU was cack and the computer wasn't really expensive, but had it on a protector it would have saved me a few hours finding out the various things wrong and a few quid too.
I have two plugged into two sockets next to each other and haven't had a single problem. Rather them there than not to be honest.
I have two plugged into two sockets next to each other and haven't had a single problem. Rather them there than not to be honest.
