Re: Lightning - funny how we're not seeing him any more

w_tom wrote: 
  Leythos even claimed a 'whole house' protector contributed
to damage.  Now he says otherwise.  Which is it?  The 'whole
house' protector does provide protection or it contributed to
electronics damage?

Leythos should read with care. The UPS claims to protect
from types of transients that are typically not destructive. UPS does claim to protect from something. But anything
effective inside that UPS is already accomplished inside the
adjacent appliance.


If I understand your statements above you are saying that a device attached to a UPS will protect itself from damage as well as an attached UPS. Is my understanding correct? If it is, you are dead wrong.
I know from experience that a UPS can prevent damage to devices attached to it. In our case the failures on hard drive electronics went from at least once a month to zero after we placed the drives on a UPS. In our area there are a number of industrial concerns. The use of some of their equipment affected the power to our building enough to stress the drive electronics, but only enough to maybe cause the florescent lights to flicker.


Somehow, Leythos dumbs this down and 
distorts reality into "a UPS does NOT protect anything."  That
distortion is only posted by Leythos.

  If Leythos understood that APC UPS spec - and posted it -
then he could not twist reality into distortions.  Ahhh ...
but that means he must first learn the numbers.  Numbers are
what junk scientists fear to touch.  It's just easier to
misrepresent what others have repeatedly posted.

Leythos wrote:

...
I've never said his technical information about whole-house grounding
was wrong, in fact, in one reply I agreed with it.  What I completely
disagree with, with physical examples to the contrary, is his
assertion that a UPS (and he can look up the specs at APC any time he
wants) does NOT protect anything.

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