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My place got struck by lightening last night...
- Thread starter AFeedz
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If I were struck by lightening, I likely wouldn't be posting.
youd be too busy enjoying superpowers?
so you unplugged it. Good thinkin'
roflmao !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
she was using it actually -lucky the end is rubber!
and by disturbed you mean moist, right?
My friends and I play this game where we give points every time someone insists on continuing a joke that's dead.
Plank: 1.
lol@you having friend(s)....
Out of the two of us, who's more likely to have friends, really?
I recall you saying you were boring a week or two ago.
Out of the two of us, who's more likely to have friends, really?
I recall you saying you were boring a week or two ago.
touche
redshirt27se
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hopefully you can get your shit replaced.. make sure you get a surge protector though.
calveless wonder
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yikes...and no renters insurance right?
pwn?
that can't be it...
canadianhitman
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WTF...you bought an expensive TV and didn't plug it into a power conditioner...or even a good surge suppressing power bar that carried insurance?
LOL...way to further the stereotype that women should not be allowed near automobiles or electronics.
LOL...way to further the stereotype that women should not be allowed near automobiles or electronics.
kx250rider
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That's bad news. I hope some of the stuff is not ruined, and that you have insurance for what is ruined. I was a TV & consumer electronics repair tech for a long time, and I worked on a lot of lightning & surge damaged stuff. If you're lucky, it's only a few parts in the power supply (typically in a TV, it's the AC line fuse, the bridge rectifier, and a few capacitors if it's a direct strike on the AC line. If it comes in through the cable TV or antenna lines, it tends to do more damage since that part of the TV is not protected so well. Computers usually just get a blow power supply, and if it's a laptop, just go get a new charger adaptor. Stuff like cheaper microwave ovens and coffee pots that get struck, are probably shot, and I wouldn't bother fixing.
In any case, I'm glad you didn't wind up with a house fire from the strike, etc... Some good to think about anyway!
Honestly, surge protectors and power strips are a joke, and will do nothing to protect against lightning or even a moderately strong surge. They're only insulated to 600 or 2500 volts, and lightning is in the millions of volts. It will jump right across the surge strip. These devices are ONLY good for small power surges, and for local shorts (such as if you plug in a TV backwards with the one-way plug damaged, and it causes a direct short to something else connected with the plug in the correct way).
TRUE protection can only be had from a 100% isolation constant voltage/constant current supply, which costs $1000s for a good one. Banks and hospitals have those for their computers, and other critical things. Those make it so your equipment isn't even connected directly to the AC line. What they are, is a bank of large batteries with a power invertor, which is actually running your computer or whatever. That unit is plugged into the wall, but all the plug does is to run a battery charger to recharge as you use.
Charles
In any case, I'm glad you didn't wind up with a house fire from the strike, etc... Some good to think about anyway!
Honestly, surge protectors and power strips are a joke, and will do nothing to protect against lightning or even a moderately strong surge. They're only insulated to 600 or 2500 volts, and lightning is in the millions of volts. It will jump right across the surge strip. These devices are ONLY good for small power surges, and for local shorts (such as if you plug in a TV backwards with the one-way plug damaged, and it causes a direct short to something else connected with the plug in the correct way).
TRUE protection can only be had from a 100% isolation constant voltage/constant current supply, which costs $1000s for a good one. Banks and hospitals have those for their computers, and other critical things. Those make it so your equipment isn't even connected directly to the AC line. What they are, is a bank of large batteries with a power invertor, which is actually running your computer or whatever. That unit is plugged into the wall, but all the plug does is to run a battery charger to recharge as you use.
Charles
canadianhitman
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You can get a 'whole house' surge protector cheaper than that:
Schneider Electric - Square D | SURGEBREAKER PLUS Whole House Surge Protector | Home Depot Canada
And while it may not save your electronics from a direct lightning strike, the 50k in coverage the manufacturer provides would allow you to replace all the damaged items without having to run it through your insurance...and thus your premiums won't rise. Worth the small investment IMO.
lol @ people getting their houses struck by lightning, pussies
double lol @ getting a surge protector, lmfao
double lol @ getting a surge protector, lmfao
a Canadian giving advice about surge protectors and lightning is laughable. just please stop. its like a Floridian giving advice about blizzards. when i went to RI in Feb i wore a hockey jersey and jeans and went outside at 5am thinking i would be okay, when i got to my car my hands literally were frozen and i was shivering... thats a floridian for you.
like Charles said, if your house gets hit by lightning a surge protector won't do anything. i've had my house hit twice by lightning.. my A/C unit got fried, and i lost a bunch of electronics both times and I have surge protectors.
the insurance company paid up, and my premiums did not go up. when you put in a claim it goes on record, but it doesn't mean your rates go up. its FL and our rates are ALREADY high. FL is the lightning capital of the world, and we get hurricanes, tornado's, hail, strong winds, and plenty of crime.
its okay though we have dozens of ignorant tourists every summer that get hit by lightning cause they don't understand how deadly it is, they either are playing golf or on the beach and see lightning but just ignore it cause they think it cant kill.
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SPEKTOR-AAA
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kx250rider ftw....
canadianhitman
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Up here you get a 'claims-free discount' on your premium after you haven't made a claim for x number of years. You lose that when you make a claim, so it's the same thing as your premium going up really. Hence why spending 200 bucks for the protector (which, I agree, won't do shit if the lightning strikes close to your home, let alone directly)....and taking their money to replace your stuff rahter than running it though your insurance makes sense.
And while we don't get thunderstorms as often as Florida, we get enough of them here in eastern Ontario to know all about lightening.
What the hell is that thing???It didn't ruin your 110 volt dildo did it?
Big dildo you plug in the wall. Afeedz will pry let you take it for a spin.
PICK3
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lololo
our premiums go up constantly because insurance companies do not want to insure in FL.
people who live on the coast buy into Citizens which is not privately owned.
you guys get lightning obviously but nothing like we do down here. we get cloud to ground lightning strikes and we have thunderstorms everyday in the afternoon during the summers. you get an occasional thunderstorm with fronts that move through, nothing compared to what we get.
You guys get pussy ass thunderstorms...
kx250rider
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I don't know if I mentioned it here a year or so ago when I discovered it, our house has a lightning arrestor on the antenna mast (formerly TV, now we have a cellphone antenna up there). I happened to be in the attic, and noticed that the #0 copper grounding wire was clamped to a pipe....... NOT a cold water pipe, but the PROPANE PIPE!!!! 
So if my electrical theory and physics is correct, the bolt of lightning would have passed through the whole attic, and ended up at the 250-gallon propane tank outside the house opposite the antenna. Since the tank is not grounded, the charge would have arced from that pipe to every metal object in the attic (whole house to catch fire simultaneously), and then the propane tank would act like a capacitor for the charge, and from there it would arc to the nearest earth ground, which would melt a big hole in the propane tank, and I don't need to explain much more.......
I have NO IDEA who did that, but they must not have any sense. I rerouted the ground wire so that it goes outside the house, down the wall to an 8 foot iron stake. We don't have much lightning in Ventura County, CA, but our house is ontop of a hill, and there's nothing taller for a mile or two around, so we're it if lightning decides to strike.
Charles
So if my electrical theory and physics is correct, the bolt of lightning would have passed through the whole attic, and ended up at the 250-gallon propane tank outside the house opposite the antenna. Since the tank is not grounded, the charge would have arced from that pipe to every metal object in the attic (whole house to catch fire simultaneously), and then the propane tank would act like a capacitor for the charge, and from there it would arc to the nearest earth ground, which would melt a big hole in the propane tank, and I don't need to explain much more.......I have NO IDEA who did that, but they must not have any sense. I rerouted the ground wire so that it goes outside the house, down the wall to an 8 foot iron stake. We don't have much lightning in Ventura County, CA, but our house is ontop of a hill, and there's nothing taller for a mile or two around, so we're it if lightning decides to strike.
Charles
RADAR
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I don't know if I mentioned it here a year or so ago when I discovered it, our house has a lightning arrestor on the antenna mast (formerly TV, now we have a cellphone antenna up there). I happened to be in the attic, and noticed that the #0 copper grounding wire was clamped to a pipe....... NOT a cold water pipe, but the PROPANE PIPE!!!!
I have NO IDEA who did that, but they must not have any sense. I rerouted the ground wire so that it goes outside the house, down the wall to an 8 foot iron stake. We don't have much lightning in Ventura County, CA, but our house is ontop of a hill, and there's nothing taller for a mile or two around, so we're it if lightning decides to strike.
Charles
ha ha people are so stupid one on my calls took me to a newhouse, justbuilt, it was sourrounded by 100 ft pine trees, they hadiNstalledlightning rodsacross the roof with the aluminum strap going to ground!, that night lightening hit it ,it hit the lightning rod and on the way to ground it blew off 3 feet on both sides of the roodf ,Shingles,Plywoods splinters and blew a large hole in the ground. I told him he would have been better letting the trees draw the lightning.
RADAR
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LOL nice bump, I was about to try to help Afeedz TS her stuff, LOL
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