Happy Saturday gang! Unfortunately, there will be no live stream tonight. I am burning the midnight oil at one of my customer sites that was hit with a power surge and many electronic items are not working properly (if at all). It is a Sheriff’s office jail, so it’s a priority. It was a storm from last Saturday, so I can definitely tell you it is taking a lot of my time. I’ve done a show about a year ago with Sam Britton (Missouri Liberty Radio) talking a bit about electrical surge suppression. In the case of my customer, they were very well surge protected except in the ceiling of the jail control room where some maglock door control equipment was moved to by another vendor last fall. That was where the surge came from and it spread through the network via the Ethernet cable because the equipment in the ceiling was not surge protected and were also on the Ethernet network. Rather than get technical on how power spikes look for ground, I will tell you the surge protection I use at my house AND recommend for my customers.
Type 1: Isobars (Made by Tripp Lite). Here’s the link to Amazon’s Tripp Lite page. These are top quality surge suppressors. They are more expensive than other brands but I have used other (cheaper) brands before and been very disappointed. Shop around the internet and you can sometimes find Tripp Lite Isobars cheaper on other retailer’s web sites. The two outlet model that affixes to a regular wall outlet is my favorite. These are literally all over my house and in most cases, all over my customer sites as well.
Type 2: CyberPower Battery Backups: Here’s a link to Amazon’s CyberPower page. I have these battery backups at every computer in my house. These are not only surge protection, they have battery power and can keep your computer going while the power is out. It’s VERY nice if you are working on a long document and there is a sudden power surge or power outage. Sam Britton has recently partnered with a battery concern here is Missouri. I intend to meet with them. I prefer to do business with Missouri based companies whenever possible. All battery backups I use MUST be AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulation) and for some applications (televisions, audio equipment, and high-end computer servers) I use Pure Sine wave backups that are also AVR.
Having a customer site crippled by a power surge absolutely sucks. I am usually very stressed out from the time I am called and told “We just had a major storm roll through and had several minor power outages and now critical systems are down.” The stress continues until everything is back up and running – and sometimes it can take weeks to replace and/or repair systems that have been damaged. There are cases when surge damage is cumulative and items do not fail immediately. If you are a nerd like me, sometimes, on equipment with intermittent failures, you might open the item up and examine the capacitors and look for obvious damage and/or swelling of the capacitors. This is a sure sign there was heat damage (which is what power surges do to unprotected electronic equipment). Be very careful when examining capacitors installed on electronics, they DO contain voltage and must be discharged safely first.
Being a self-employed IT Consultant the past 22 years has been a great gig. I used to put up a video now and then about Internet security, surge suppression, Best Practices and explanation videos about how to fix the simple things on your computer yourself on our old channel “Truth Money and Freedom Podcast” back in 2018. Most of those videos were removed by You Tube (music “copyright” strikes on a non-monetized channel). I’ve also thought about doing videos of building/repairing guitars at some point (a hobby of mine) but time has never allowed for it. What we do in Missouri is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT and has always been my priority. I have many hobbies but time is short and saving our states is more important to me than documenting my hobbies.
Missouri First’s Ron Calzone announced a new organization on September 4th. It is called the “Article 3 Institute.” You can see the website here. This is definitely the big news of the week and is much needed in Missouri. Rather than go into much detail now, we will DEFINTELY cover this next week on the live stream. This is a big deal folks, trust me. 😉
Unfortunately, this is all I can write for now…it’s time to go back to work. Thank you all for your patience with me.
May God bless us all with good health and with wisdom and courage.
Yours for liberty,
Patrick Holland
Missouri Freedom Initiative
P.O. Box 343
Clever, Missouri 65631
patrick@mofree.org
https://mofree.org
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