Is it okay to plug a power-strip into a UPS?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jun 17, 2005, at 09:59, Benjamin Scott wrote:

>   Now, to me, the big question is, "Just how bad is shunting power to 
> the grounded (neutral) and/or grounded (safety ground) lines?"  It 
> doesn't matter if you have really great MOVs (or gas tubes for that 
> matter) if the whole design concept is flawed from the start.

My experience with lightning hit failures is limited to the radio gear 
I installed for our neighborhood wireless network - I put gas-tube type 
lightning arrestors inline with the antennas and outdoor ethernet runs 
grounded with #8 stranded wire.  Before I put them in we were losing a 
radio a month.  Since then we haven't lost one.

These were near-strikes, not direct hits, induced currents, I'm 
guessing.  If lightning can jump from a cloud to the ground I don't 
have much faith that a 1" gas tube is going to send it packing.  But 
there are thousands of times more near hits than direct strikes, so 
that's what you want to defend against.

-Bill

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