[Coco] Storm damage

[John T Chasteen]

Hi Gene
Be sure your electrical service entrance is grounded and
your telephone service is grounded at the entrance to your home.
The electrical supply stores sell "Lightning Protectors " that can be
mounted in your service cabinet.

John

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:50:54 -0400 gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
writes:
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 01:24:46 PM Bill did opine:
> 
> > Well, I'm back where I started. We had a terrific storm last night 
> and
> > now the HP I got from another member on the list is history. It 
> wasn't
> > running, but it was plugged in. Luckily, nothing was hooked to it. 
> So
> > now I don't have a PC that I can use.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I have an old G5 Mac, but it doesn't have a COM1 port. So, until I 
> can
> > scrounge around and find another PC, I'm out of luck.
>  
> Lightning Bill?
> Checklist:
> 
> Monitor separate? S/B plugged into the same outlet.
> 
> Static grounded (3rd round pin)?  No? All bets are against you.
> 
> Line cords all effectively plugged into the same outlet?  No? All 
> bets are 
> against you again.
> 
> I got tired of that lightning blowing stuff scene about 20 years 
> ago, 
> blowing modems etc every time mother nature heard somebody call that 
> stuff 
> butter, and went through the wiring to one of the wall plugs here in 
> this 
> room and soldered all the joints in every junction box clear back to 
> the 
> circuit breaker.  Then I, in time, bought a huge all in one power 
> strip 
> with surge arrestors for the power line, the telephone line and even 
> a coax 
> surge limiter to run the cable tv circuit through.  7 breaker 
> protected 
> outlets on it plus those data/tv lines.
> 
> A 1500WA rated ups is plugged into that, and 3 6 outlet power strips 
> to 
> power stuff that needs a gracefull shutdown are plugged into the 
> ups.
> 
> The rest of the stuff in this room, printers, net switches etc, are 
> plugged 
> into power strips plugged into the big strip.  So I am tied together 
> with a 
> common ground between everything that all comes from one single wall 
> plug.  
> A star ground in the parlance.
> 
> This whole rooms contents can bounce 50 to 100 thousand volts when 
> lightning hits the transformer pole across the street, but it all 
> bounces 
> in unison so nothing is hurt.
> 
> I haven't lost anything except a couple of 15' USB extension hubs 
> that went 
> to the basement where the coco is similarly wired all to one strip, 
> but it 
> isn't on this same branch circuit so the USB stuff got hammered. 
> Twice, but 
> since I bought some new cables from a different vendor that are 10 
> meters 
> long and re-arranged the hubs downstairs, they are either tougher 
> stuff or 
> I haven't been tapped hard enough in the last year.
> 
> Cheers, Gene
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