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    This is getting tiresome. AND expensive. For some time now, (not every time), when there's s storm, one or more transformers get fried. Saturday we had another storm and there was a pretty close flash of light with the attendant, instant crash of thunder. It was 'close'. Well the main phone transformer got fried. The slave phone's transformer is connected to two extension cords, and is connected to the SAME surge protector. The main phone transformer got fried, but not the slave's. Also....the Seiman's high speed wireless internet modem got fried. The little 12V transformer connected to it is okay. Interesting, considering the surge protector it and the rest of the peripherals are on was turned off!
    The surge protectors we buy somtimes burn out, sometimes not, sometimes will take out some (not all) of what ever is plugged into them. Sometimes the Surge protectors (two instances of Belkin) have caught on fire.

    What can I do to protect from the expense of replacing stuff all the time?

  • #2
    unplug all units when a storm approaches.

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    • #3
      lightening.....

      Dang. Was afraid you'd say that, HayZee. We have taken to doing that. But it can be a real pain with resetting clocks and such. What a bite. Nothing electrical gets affected. Just the electronics. The bain of modern 'stuff'.....

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      • #4
        surge protection for the electronics has always been a pain. so many items are operating "above ground" there really isn't a path to a good earth ground for protection. minute spikes in the line voltage is enough to fry a power supply. first thing that gets hit is a fullwave and bridge rectifier. both things conduct on both sides of the ac line. the filter which is an inductor and capacitor combination is next after the rectifier. then comes the ic regulator and zener diode which its function is to clamp to a known voltage and keep it there, the remainder is given off as heat.

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        • #5
          lightening....

          ah-HA! Just as I suspected. There IS a neutral path that is affected! Thanks, HayZee, for clarifying AND teaching! Much appreciated.....

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