morgan_man
Novice Member
Telephone Surge Protection
We’ve just had our telephone line repaired after nine days. Turned out to be the i-Plate from BT.
Last week there were storms and lightning about 6 miles away and the BT engineer said these were the cause of the fried i-Plate. This got me thinking of solutions for telephone line surge protection. I’m quite a fan of the Belkin AV ones and have 6 or 7 about the house, including a single socket one with telephone line protection:
Belkin SurgeMaster, 1-Way MasterCube with Tel/Fax/Modem Protection
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-SurgeMaster-1-Way-MasterCube-Protection/dp/B0002AG0DE/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1391564779&sr=1-10&keywords=SurgeMaster
Belkin rate the telephone protection at 320 joules, which seems low to me, and the BT engineer said this would not protect our equipment. His only solution was to unplug the router cable when storms are about.
Now the ADSL line comes from the i-Plate to the single socket Belkin and out to a BT router and on to two Netgear routers. Then via a wired network to two PCs, large screen TV, Blu-ray player and two Humaxes. About £4k to replace if fried.
So I’m fairly keen to find a better protection solution.
Technical background
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/surge/telesurge.html#
There’s one made by Furse:
http://www.keison.co.uk/furse/furse11.htm
Satcure offer kits for a homemade one:
http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/phonesurge.htm
Or ready made from iTM
http://www.itm-components.co.uk/iqs/pdpfldbproperty1091.0/dbmatchid.243500/pdpfldbproperty1092.0/pdpfldbproperty1089.0/pdpfldbproperty1095.0/pdpfldbproperty1090.22530/sfa.view/pdpfldbproperty1093.0/pdpfldbproperty1094.0/lightning_protectors.html
Cheap solution from Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/RJ-11-Telephone-Protector-Thunder-Arrester/dp/B00AH76CHG/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2TA621X9MP8QP&coliid=I9J86I8GFSV69
So the easy solution is to unplug the router when stormy, but no good if we are out at the time. I could go wireless network but very expensive and slow with solid walls. Which leaves me with an electronic solution.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Chris
We’ve just had our telephone line repaired after nine days. Turned out to be the i-Plate from BT.
Last week there were storms and lightning about 6 miles away and the BT engineer said these were the cause of the fried i-Plate. This got me thinking of solutions for telephone line surge protection. I’m quite a fan of the Belkin AV ones and have 6 or 7 about the house, including a single socket one with telephone line protection:
Belkin SurgeMaster, 1-Way MasterCube with Tel/Fax/Modem Protection
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-SurgeMaster-1-Way-MasterCube-Protection/dp/B0002AG0DE/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1391564779&sr=1-10&keywords=SurgeMaster
Belkin rate the telephone protection at 320 joules, which seems low to me, and the BT engineer said this would not protect our equipment. His only solution was to unplug the router cable when storms are about.
Now the ADSL line comes from the i-Plate to the single socket Belkin and out to a BT router and on to two Netgear routers. Then via a wired network to two PCs, large screen TV, Blu-ray player and two Humaxes. About £4k to replace if fried.
So I’m fairly keen to find a better protection solution.
Technical background
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/surge/telesurge.html#
There’s one made by Furse:
http://www.keison.co.uk/furse/furse11.htm
Satcure offer kits for a homemade one:
http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/phonesurge.htm
Or ready made from iTM
http://www.itm-components.co.uk/iqs/pdpfldbproperty1091.0/dbmatchid.243500/pdpfldbproperty1092.0/pdpfldbproperty1089.0/pdpfldbproperty1095.0/pdpfldbproperty1090.22530/sfa.view/pdpfldbproperty1093.0/pdpfldbproperty1094.0/lightning_protectors.html
Cheap solution from Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/RJ-11-Telephone-Protector-Thunder-Arrester/dp/B00AH76CHG/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2TA621X9MP8QP&coliid=I9J86I8GFSV69
So the easy solution is to unplug the router when stormy, but no good if we are out at the time. I could go wireless network but very expensive and slow with solid walls. Which leaves me with an electronic solution.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Chris
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