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Originally Posted by griffin8r
I'm not sure of the relevance here. All I'm saying is that, while the UPS will certainly protect your equipment on an ungrounded line, the fact that the line is still ungrounded means your UPS has less ability to protect itself. Even a series mode protection system is helpless with no neutral to shunt excess voltage.
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Operative being they take the hit. So, if you don't mind replacing them after virtually every electrical storm, since they are helpless to protect themselves from surge because there's no neutral ground, then yes, they'll solve your problem.
Which was my whole point in the first place. Yes, the UPS will protect whatever is plugged into it, whether there's a ground or not, but you'll be replacing the UPS every time you get a significant line surge or even a series of small line surges, because the system cannot protect itself without a ground. |
You seem to have jumped the shark here.....
We started out with a missing GROUND. Now you are talking about a missing Ground AND a missing neutral.
If there is a missing neutral, I'd run, not walk away from that line. And in most cases, nothing would work.
So, all your arguments about the missing neutral make your statements invalid.
The Ground is the BACKUP for the neutral.....as I'm sure I said in several previous posts.
I'm not sure anything will take a lightning strike. If you are concerned about a lightning strike, make sure you have a rod on top the house, and make sure you are behind a Power transformer without a lot of open wire between you and it.
But the odds of a lightning strike are......well, the odds of a lightning strike.
If you actually get struck by lightning, on your line, your "surge strip" isn't gonna take it, no matter what size wire you have going to ground.