Surge protectors save electronic appliances from damage caused by lightning strikes.

Fiction: Surge protectors protect utility lines from power surges caused by the utility company but they don’t protect appliances against lightning strikes.

To be effective against lightning damage, surge protectors must be combined with a total system of lightning rods and proper grounding.

A lightning arrestor is filled with gas that serves as an open circuit. If lighting travels down the line, the gas gap becomes ionized and diverts the electrical current to the ground.

Read more at Suite101: Lightning Myths: Fact or Fiction: What You Should Know About Electrical Storms http://lighteningstorms.suite101.com/article.cfm/lightning_fact_and_fiction#ixzz0afhTsbYA

Fiction: If your new teevee is damaged via a lightening strike, then that's your problem. Warranty doesn't cover that sort of thing.

Fact: If you take the teevee back to Walmart, and just tell them that it doesn't work... with a dumb look on your face... they'll give you another one.

thats funny as hell

Bighead wrote:

Fiction: If your new teevee is damaged via a lightening strike, then that's your problem. Warranty doesn't cover that sort of thing.

Fact: If you take the teevee back to Walmart, and just tell them that it doesn't work... with a dumb look on your face... they'll give you another one.

Very true. Wallyworld wants you to keep coming in that door. Besides, they have enough profits and tax loopholes to make up for returns. There's a reason Christmas and Halloween decorations can drop 50% to 75% in price after the holidays.