[LAU] OT: Overvoltage protection aginst lightning for audio studios

[Emanuel Rumpf]

2011/6/10 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>:
>
> IIUC houses that were build after the second world war should be
> pre-protected, but houses that are older could be without any
> pre-protection. The later a house was build, the better the
> pre-protection and without pre-protection as far as I understand, those
> devices are completely useless.
>

How do the safety connectors work ?
AFAICT they separate the equipment from the over-voltage source.
Supposing this happens fast enough and the separation is high-voltage save,
how should an over-voltage still be able to harm your equipment ?
I would conclude: It can't.

>
> 'Perhaps' next week or so, I'll do some more research.
>
Let's know, if you figure out.

-- 
E.R.