Will you two please change the Subject line? I don't want to be responsible
for this tirade between you two. It never fails, mention electricity to a
man, and a fight ensues based on their early education. Come on, you two,
give it over, or use email.
"Leythos" wrote in message
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In article 42,
says...
Leythos wrote in news:j0Q5h.27047$pq4.13179
@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:

In article 42,
says...
If you have 100 devices, 50 with surge supression of SOME type, and 50
w/o, and there is an event that causes damage to 25 of the 50 NON-
protected items (50%), yet all of the protected items are not damaged,
based on mathematics, it's COMPLETELY SAFE to conclude that the surge
suppressors saved 50% of the 50 protected items does it not ?

That last part should have been "...suppressors saved 100% of the 50
protected items..."



Well, that was just going according to tom's logic, that suppressors
don't work.

If 50% of the unprotected devices fried, that gives a 50% failure, by
that ratio and t-Logic, 50% of the protected devices would have been fine
on their own because they are protected by some 'invisible' surge
supressor put in place on many devices by the 'surge supressor
fairy'....I've never seen her......

LOL, I see why I missed it, I wasn't thinking like w_tom

I have an old experience with a guy that was a EE when I was fresh out
of high-school, I was running an electrical design shop and had about 20
college kids going for their EE working for me (don't ask, it's just the
way life has always worked for me).

I was designing a UART based system that would transmit 64 sets of BCD
across two wires for a distance of 10,000 feet. I had worked on the
design for about a week, build the prototype, but I could not get the
current circuit down and I could only get about 1000 feet. I had hired a
EE a few weeks before that and let him have a go at it - this guy was
sharp as a tack when it came to theory and he figured out my problem and
solution in a couple hours. This same chap was unable to diagnose any
problems in the field, unable to solder anything, unable to explain why
things that didn't follow theory worked time and time again, etc...

The problem is that while we may not always be able to find mathematical
solutions to why things work, we can show a repeatable history that they
still work, and I'm convinced that, based on years of history, that a
quality UPS device does indeed protect devices connected to it.

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