Lightning strike -- The're dead, Jim

[sekker]

Just imagine in twenty years when everything has a vulnerable CPU running it via the IoTs...

[rob banzai]

Surge protectors work. My building has had electrical problems for years that trigger surges. I've lost two surge protectors that cooked themselves to save my equipment.

[JoeH]

rob banzai wrote:
Surge protectors work. My building has had electrical problems for years that trigger surges. I've lost two surge protectors that cooked themselves to save my equipment.

Yes they do. However they might or might not been effective in the OP's situation, that would have depended on close the strike was. Also, from the description of the damaged equipment, it sounds like the surge came in over the cable line. A proper grounding of that might have prevented the surge damaging equipment farther in.

[max]

Onamuji wrote:
[quote=max]
Surge protectors dont help in this situation....

Good ones may help. They fry themselves before the surge hits your devices. Nope, there is no surge from outside to protect if it was not a direct hit.
If it is an EMP, the individual electronics gets affected, with a potential surge generated by your internal wiring. It does depend on the strength and the distance of the lighting strike. Surge protectors would be totally useless in that scenario.
And this has all the symptoms of the EMP, not a direct strike...

rob banzai wrote:
Surge protectors work. My building has had electrical problems for years that trigger surges. I've lost two surge protectors that cooked themselves to save my equipment.

Again, not when you get hit with EMP....

[deckeda]

JoeH wrote:

.... Also, from the description of the damaged equipment, it sounds like the surge came in over the cable line. A proper grounding of that might have prevented the surge damaging equipment farther in.

One of the 3 DirecTV boxes died, so no. The cable guy did replace the ground block outside the house as a precaution but the only "real" equipment swap there was the modem.

[Black]

Hey, I'm in STL too. Still some scattered tix left for Decemberists at the Peabody tonight...

[JoeH]

deckeda wrote:
[quote=JoeH]

.... Also, from the description of the damaged equipment, it sounds like the surge came in over the cable line. A proper grounding of that might have prevented the surge damaging equipment farther in.

One of the 3 DirecTV boxes died, so no. The cable guy did replace the ground block outside the house as a precaution but the only "real" equipment swap there was the modem.
Once it comes in through the cable and reaches your modem, then the surge can affect other devices on the same electrical circuit or your network. But that is not the only possible pathway. Were the cable modem and DirecTV box connected to the same network?

[modelamac]

They're dead.