Re: Surge / Ground / Lightning

On May 1, 2:18=A0pm, ransley <Mark_Rans...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Whaaat, you say my Triplights that offer a life time warranty to
> damages from from surges and lightning offer non such =A0claim or
> warranty, thats pure barf. Triplight surge protectors are only one
> step a homeowner needs to hopefully protect you. Ive been hit several
> times, anything you do helps a bit.

  Actually some things installed will decrease protection - ie the TV
destroyed because the plug-in protector earthed an 8000 volt surge
through it.  Gross assumptions are also behind that warranty.  Did you
read the fine print and learn from so many others who never got that
warranty honored?

  For example, some plujg-in protectors state that a protector from
any other manufacturer in the building means their warranty is void.
Another says that if you don't submit the claim on their forms, the
claim may be rejected. Another says reinbursement is based on
depreciation meaning the computer has zero value in a few years.
Another says that every electrical conductor that touches that
appliance must connect through their protector.  Did they forget to
mention that a table top is considered an electrical conductor?  How
many fine print exemptions make a warranty void?  Fine print is chock
full of exemptions.  Warranty says nothing about protection.

Steve Uhrig on 17 Jun 2003 in the newsgroup   comp.home.automation
entitled "UPS for computer and TV"
> I read the terms of their warranty, which I had saved
> together with the purchase receipt, and contacted
> them to submit a warranty claim. I was nice and
> polite and had everything do***ented including
> photos of their product installed next to the fax.
> They laughed in my face. Almost could not have
> been more insulting.
> I wrote to the executive management of the company,
> copied customer service, sent both return receipt to
> prove they received them, and never got the courtesy
> of a reply.

   Did that protector do protection?  Well, how many dishwashers have
been surge damaged during the same surges?  How many dimmer switches?
Where are these surges that the Tripplite protected from?  Only way
you know that Tripplite provided protection is when everything else -
every smoke detector, clock radio, dimmer switch, wa****ng machine, etc
was destroyed.  You have no idea what that Tripplite did.   In fact,
Page 42 Figure 8 - the Tripplite may even make create damage to other
items in that room.