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Old 07-18-2014, 04:25 PM
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Based on what you said above, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that a reliable company be willing to give a written guarantee that there will be no fire or damage from lightning? Talk is cheap but will they back up what they say?
The studies that I have reviewed show that the major reason for failure is simple neglect and failure to follow the maintance criteria in NFPA-780. They don’t take much maintenance as they have no moving parts. Are there are any manmade products that are 100% reliable – never have a failure? Every transportation mode has a failure rate as does your appliances, computers and other electronics. Are automatic external deliberators (AED) 100% guaranteed when they are called on in a life & death situation? Yet we had one fail last summer during a Villages softball game. My point is that anything manmade can fail but you have to agree that they all work a very high percentage of the time well into to the upper ninety percent range including LPS.