Most of the whole house surge suppressors I've seen do not have large enough connecting wires to handle 100 Amperes or more of current, which is what would be necessary to trip the main breaker, and a high enough voltage in a spike might be able to jump the air gap in an opened breaker anyway.
As I understand it, the "conductive if the voltage rises enough" elements in a whole house suppressor are installed across the lines, where they would be a dead short if always conductive, but only conduct when the voltage rises above a level which is comfortably above the level normally on the line.
Thus a "spike", which is a momentary, very sharp, and of considerable amplitude increase in the voltage, would get shorted instead of being able to drive current in the electrical lines inside the house. The source of that spike may be of fairly high impedence, which means that it can't deliver much current, certainly not enough to trip a breaker, but the voltage may be enough to overcome insulation ratings, and to destroy semiconductor junctions. The trick is to divert it via a shorter, more conductive path before it gets there.
"Ground rods' high impedance as opposed to a proper grounding conductor..."
Well, actually it's how conductive the contact between the ground rod and the ground is, which is influenced by what is used to make the ground rod (many nowadays are steel, to facilitate driving them into the ground, covered with copper, to facilitate conduction), and whether the proper material is used in the ground rod clamp.
I'm curious what you mean in the above by a proper grounding conductor.
Unfortunately "Advanced Format Disease" has spread to 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2Tb drives as well.
And the manufacturers don't make it easy to find out which models are or are not when you're buying retail boxed drives which have different model numbers from the model number of the actual drive inside the box, not to mention that there's no guarantee that the same model number box has the same model drive inside this month that was in boxes with that model number last month.
I looked at that video and it seems to be the same as the one from the city of Sanford's website.
I noticed that Zimmerman seems to have a bald patch, but it keeps moving around, and concluded that it's light reflecting back through his short hair, and the reason it seems to move is because Zimmerman is moving relative to the source of the light.
I looked at that video (but did not step through it frame by frame) on a 17" LCD monitor at 1280 x 1040. Perhaps if I had a much, much bigger screen running at a much higher resolution I'd see something I thought actually looks like evidence of a wound, but at this point all I'm seeing is what appears to be a trick of the light.
Which, I realize, proves nothing either way, but I don't see that this "new High Defintion clip from the police video" does either.
If you watch old episodes of Little House on the Prairie, you can see exactly that. Stores that show samples of things and then order the dress, farm equipment, or whatever from the catalog. (Today you'd replace catalog with website.)
But then folks like them Sears and Ward fellers came along with their fancy mail order catalogs and eliminated the middlemen and all of a sudden there weren't no dry goods store in town no more.
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Most of the whole house surge suppressors I've seen do not have large enough connecting wires to handle 100 Amperes or more of current, which is what would be necessary to trip the main breaker, and a high enough voltage in a spike might be able to jump the air gap in an opened breaker anyway.
As I understand it, the "conductive if the voltage rises enough" elements in a whole house suppressor are installed across the lines, where they would be a dead short if always conductive, but only conduct when the voltage rises above a level which is comfortably above the level normally on the line.
Thus a "spike", which is a momentary, very sharp, and of considerable amplitude increase in the voltage, would get shorted instead of being able to drive current in the electrical lines inside the house. The source of that spike may be of fairly high impedence, which means that it can't deliver much current, certainly not enough to trip a breaker, but the voltage may be enough to overcome insulation ratings, and to destroy semiconductor junctions. The trick is to divert it via a shorter, more conductive path before it gets there.
"Ground rods' high impedance as opposed to a proper grounding conductor..."
Well, actually it's how conductive the contact between the ground rod and the ground is, which is influenced by what is used to make the ground rod (many nowadays are steel, to facilitate driving them into the ground, covered with copper, to facilitate conduction), and whether the proper material is used in the ground rod clamp.
I'm curious what you mean in the above by a proper grounding conductor.
And those 40 some odd year old avacado colored appliances are probably still running better than ones made in the last 10 years.
In my day all we had were those self-developing photographs someone took with their Pornaroid camera.
Unfortunately "Advanced Format Disease" has spread to 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2Tb drives as well.
And the manufacturers don't make it easy to find out which models are or are not when you're buying retail boxed drives which have different model numbers from the model number of the actual drive inside the box, not to mention that there's no guarantee that the same model number box has the same model drive inside this month that was in boxes with that model number last month.
"...why waste 500GB - 750GB drives, many that are NIB....?"
If they're IDE/PATA, find people with Series 1 and 2 TiVos that need more storage space.
It seems watching video through the Xfinity app on an Xbox does not counting towards your cap on your Comcast data plan.
"All your cap are belong to us"?
Everybody click on all the ads so that Slashdot can afford a proofreader.
"It's really all about protecting the already heavily-subsidised corn growers..."
No, it's about protecting US sugar cane sugar growers and producers.
Has been since long before soda and candy companies started switching over to corn syrup.
Whoever modded you redundant is, not to put to fine a point on it, an idiot with no appreciation for drollity.
You are confused.
It's actually different from what you thought it was.
But the central point of
"Is it poison? Well, that depends on the size of the dose."
remains valid.
Yeah, but that Porsche was the son of the son of the founder of the company.
So what?
No one lusts after a Fender amp, they want a Marshall.
He did it right.
Yeah, that's why pawnshops everywhere are full of early '60s Fender amps gathering dust.
The next time they give me 15 mod points, I'll just let them expire and we'll pretend your comment got all of them (in a good way).
...Porn showed me that my wife can be exiting after she gets old and fat.
Exit old, fat wife, enter young slim trophy wife.
Yeah, I think I heard somebody talk about seeing one with that plot line before.
There are many more staring at it than starring in it.
Yeah... I saw a play the other day, and the house these people lived in was missing an entire wall.
Was that house in a Potemkin village, perchance?
I looked at that video and it seems to be the same as the one from the city of Sanford's website.
I noticed that Zimmerman seems to have a bald patch, but it keeps moving around, and concluded that it's light reflecting back through his short hair, and the reason it seems to move is because Zimmerman is moving relative to the source of the light.
I looked at that video (but did not step through it frame by frame) on a 17" LCD monitor at 1280 x 1040. Perhaps if I had a much, much bigger screen running at a much higher resolution I'd see something I thought actually looks like evidence of a wound, but at this point all I'm seeing is what appears to be a trick of the light.
Which, I realize, proves nothing either way, but I don't see that this "new High Defintion clip from the police video" does either.
"Emma Peel, as played by Diana Rigg is the reason why all of my fantasies involve a British accent."
Hear, hear.
You forgot about the cars wearing bonnets as well.
When they have a really good Black Friday price on something, order it from bestbuy.com
It's what we used instead of TiVos back when we had to watch TV by candlelight.
If you watch old episodes of Little House on the Prairie, you can see exactly that. Stores that show samples of things and then order the dress, farm equipment, or whatever from the catalog. (Today you'd replace catalog with website.)
But then folks like them Sears and Ward fellers came along with their fancy mail order catalogs and eliminated the middlemen and all of a sudden there weren't no dry goods store in town no more.
What if someone took your advice from back then and sold their BestBuy stock and put it into Circuit City stock?
"What makes you think any violence will be involved? "
Several decades of observing human nature?
The knowledge that power vacuums tend to get filled, but not in a nice way?
I think that shift is more like "Devil take the hindmost".