MOTM

more power questions...

Isn't having two surge protectors plugged into the same outlet (or 
the same circuit for that matter...  or the same house...) the same 
as havign them daisy chained?  Maybe not in the distant examples, but 
the MOV is parallel to the outlet, so what's the difference between 
having a strip plugged into another strip and having two strips 
plugged into each other?  either way, there are going to be two sets 
of MOVs running across the lines.  Is the significant thing here the 
actual physical/electrical distance between the MOVs?  So having 
essentially two surge protectors plugged into my no-surge-protection 
splitter is ok, even though it seemes electically identical to having 
two surge protectors daisy chained?

Also, clipping the blue, cap-like thing out of my strip is ok, 
right?  Arrgh!  Again, I hate to spam, but I don't think I'm the only 
one here to wonder about this.  Anyone else come to the same 
conclusion here?

And more on-topic, exactly what is "star ground?"  I don't quite get 
why you'd need to run two ground lines to each module.  'splain?  I'm 
not 100% inept, so some techno-jargon is ok, but don't go too 
far.  ::grin::

-Geoff