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To: shadowman who wrote (47712)9/19/2005 2:00:48 AM
From: d:oug  Read Replies (2) of 110655
 
... caused a massive power surge that shot through the house,
shorting out every electrical appliance and melting almost all
the wires snaking through their walls.

shadowman,

A year or so back on IH's COMPUTER LEARNING board was a discussion
about the risks of todays massive amounts of electric devices,
especially computer and entertaiment related, that have been
installed onto the home's wiring that was rated under a code
that existed for a 1950s home environment.

Also mentioned was a "firewall" type surge device now available
to be placed between the outside environment of storm lighting,
and now, "workers dug into an apparently mis-marked power line
running into their home" to protect the home's wiring and appliances
from receiving a jolt of current to melt metal.

Conclusion was to get an electrician to check the home wiring state
and investigate installing a "fuse" between home and outside knowing
that a run-of-the-mill fuse box is to control in-house shorts and overloads,
not the outside events.

doug
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