On 10/23/2015 12:58 PM, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:24:40 -0500, Muggles wrote:

You sure know a lot about this subject. Are you an electrician?

If westom is an electrician I would not hire him.

ok Just trying to make sense of the discussion.

An SPD saved my 50" Plasma TV. I lost an older one without an SPD.
The server at work was saved from a brownout surge on an APC battery
unit. I suspect nearby lightning caused a main board damage on my
refrigerator.

Maybe he can explain _why_ planes have no earth ground. My guess he
thinks every appliance needs a barn lightning rod with an electrode.
Or planes drag a chain behind it to earth ground, like fuel trucks.

Long time ago when I was still living my parents, lightning hit the big
oak tree in our front yard. We felt the electricity in the air about a
split second before it hit, but nothing in the house was damaged. Not
sure why, though, because we didn't use surge protectors for anything
back then.

Fast forward 20 years, I'm living in my own house and the large sycamore
tree across the street was hit with lightning. It damaged 2 tv's and a
pc. The tv's and pc all had surge protectors, but were damaged, anyway.

I'm not an electrician


Me either! I run for cover when it gets stormy because of the lightning
possibility.

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Maggie