[Coco] Storm damage

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 02:54:34 PM John T Chasteen did opine:

> 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

Service is both well NEC style grounded, and replaced about 5 years back.  
Telco is on cable, enters at the other end of the house and has an arrestor 
and ground rod.

In that regard, I think I am fairly compliant other than the cable should 
be coming in near the service so they could share a common ground.  But I 
can't move either very economically.

> 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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