Re: Soon to arrive my HDTV

w_tom wrote:
> On Apr 4, 11:03 am, Jer <gd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Especially when there's earth behind the wallplate.  My own multi****t
>> protector tripped twice during the night due to, I presume, lightning
>> surges given the thunderstorms that rolled through right after the
>> waking hour.  One of the trip events momentarily interrupted my early
>> morning pleasure of watching a commercial.  Dammit.  :)
> 
>   Wall receptacle only has a safety ground - not an earth ground.  Jer
> denies this without citing even one professinoal citation or science
> reason. One who actually designed protectors also cites sources.
> Sources say that wall receptacle is safety ground.  NEC calls it
> equipment ground.  Located elsewhere, according to NEC, is earth
> ground.  EE Times articles say why that wall receptacle provides no
> earth ground.  And then the numbers were provided - resistance verses
> impedance for 50' 12 AWG wire.  How many reasons need Jer ignore to
> restate a myth - that a wall receptacle is earth ground.
> 
>   Jer simply demonstrates a majority who mysteriously know but forgot
> to first learn.  No wonder George Bush could so easily lie about
> Saddam's WMDs.
> 
>   A multi****t protector tripped twice? That means protection
> existed?   Impossible.  To make his claim, Jer needed no knowledge and
> wild speculation.   If a protector 'tripped', then protector circuit
> did not operate. For his power strip to perform protection, thermal
> fuse blows (if protector was grossly undersized) AND fail light
> declares permanent damage. If protector circuit worked, then nothing
> could be reset for the second trip.
> 
>    So what tripped?  A circuit breaker.  A completely different device
> found even on $3 power strips that have no surge protection.  Using
> Jer's logic, a $3 power strip could have performed the exact same
> protection as a $25 Tripplite.  Jer has posted without basic
> knowledge; recommended a surge protector while claiming it did what it
> cannot do and does not even claim to do. This is a second reason why
> his lastest post is a myth due to ignorance.   More reasons.
> 
>   Surges don't trip circuit breakers.  Jer would know this from
> numbers in previous citations - if he would only read them.   Circuit
> breakers take milliseconds to trip.  Surges are done in microseconds.
> Something like 300 consecutive surges are required to trip a circuit
> breaker. Surge did not trip that circuit breaker.  Jer has assumed and
> then declared that assumption as fact.
> 
>   Why does a circuit breaker trip?  A human safety problem existed.
> For some reason, the appliance consumed too much AC utility power for
> a massively long time period - tens or hundreds of milliseconds.  That
> circuit breaker trip says nothing about surge protection.  That
> circuit breaker trip would also occur if the power strip was a $3
> power strip without any surge protector parts.
> 
>   Four reasons demonstrate that Jer still did not read many previous
> citations.  Jer even confuses a circuit breaker for human safety with
> surge protectors for transistor safety.
> 
>   Let's see.  That circuit breaker took milliseconds to trip.  Surge
> completed in microseconds.  A circuit breaker protected electronics
> milliseconds after the surge has ended?  Clearly that surge protector
> performed time travel.  It tripped.  Then it went back 1 second in
> time to protect from a surge.  Jer claims his protector provided
> protection by using time travel.
> 
>   Jer, this is getting rediculous.  You have no idea what protection
> is.  You even confuse a wall receptacle safety ground with earth
> ground.  Now you are making claims that can only exist using time
> travel.  A protector is only as effective as its earth ground.  Plug-
> in protectors have no earth ground. No earth ground means no effective
> protection.


Jer has a secret that w_ doesn't have a clue about.  Go ahead smart ass, 
ask me.  If you ask nicely, I'll tell you.

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jer
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