Re: Surge protectors to use with home electronics when grounding is not available?

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:12:05 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


John Fields wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:41:49 -0700 (PDT), w_tom <w_tom1@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Jun 30, 4:06 pm, John Fields <jfie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, I see from your outburst that you've been confounded by my
excellent ASCII art schematics and my lucid explanation of why and how
two-wire plug-in TVS-basedsurgesuppressors can be used to good
advantage in premises without (or with unused) earth grounding.
That is, after all, the topic as indicated by the subject line.

Every responsible source says the grounding must exist.

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<snipped off-topic, irrelevant claptrap>

Regardless of what your "responsible" sources say, situations exist
where grounding is impossible and the subject line of this thread:

"Surge protectors to use with home electronics when grounding is not
available?"

should indicate to anyone with a modicum of intelligence that it asks
for solutions for surge protection where no ground is available.

Your inane insistence on quoting references which require a ground is,
therefore, not only off topic but also stupid.

As I suggested earlier, if you want to discuss whole house protection
where earth grounding is available you would do well to start a new
thread addressing that topic.

Otherwise, perhaps you'd care to grace us with some on-topic solutions
or, at the very least, since you seem to be so intent on proving me
wrong, a technical refutation of my position with respect to the
subject at hand.

JF


John, _wacko_ tom has been trolling this same crap for years. He
doesn't want answers, he wants to argue.

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That's fine with me!

It's a slow day and I don't mind slapping the likes of him around at
all! :-)

JF
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