Lightning strike...

Chuckles

Chuckles

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For the EE guys:
Got hit and lost the PC, printer, routers.
No longer on ATT landline, but still have the wiring, albeit some 30 yrs old.
The main power and the old phone wiring took the hit.
It blew the phone box all over the yard, blew the shop phone off the wall, fried the router, and tripped the fault detectors.
Back in business and looking for a GOOD surge unit, either for the entire house, or for the computer stuff.
I see one for the computer room type on Amazon for $250.
Also, for the house:

NE1 with some input/experience with such an animal?
TIA,
 
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Frankly when you get that kind of hit there is not much you can do. There's a "grounding standard" (R56) that was re-published by Motorola leaning of course, towards hilltop radio sites. Bonding/ grounding is a REAL deal. You can spend a hell of a lot of money on lightning protection and STILL not be real safe

Six hundred and forty some odd pages...........

 
We just had an Eaton unit installed at our breaker box by a local electrician. It will protect stuff against line surges due to power interruptions but he said the same thing as above. If you get a lightening strike really close, it will fry it. He said if that happens, unit will be flashing red when power comes back and it will need to be replaced.
 
Basically what the radio sites do is bond everything to everything, and to a "halo" ground around the building and tower. This of course can be really "iffy" in rocky/ dry soil. Part of the approach, forget what they are called, are "brushes" big huge metal gizmos like a chimney cleaning brush around the top area of the tower. These as supposed to provide a "non pointed" area that is supposed to help dissipate a charge rather than attract a strike

Static dissipator:

 
Still replacing pieces.
So far, the PC, the main router, the blown GFI.
The printer is on order.
The shop router, wired via a Cat 6 cable to an older router, served to provide WIFI to the shop for my LT and cell fone.
I just got a new router but evidently, I'm not getting it set up correctly.
A rank amateur with this stuff! :facepalm:

As for the AT&T stuff.. The tech said that that box is 30 yrs old and no longer used.
I said get rid of it. He whipped out his trusty side cutters, and it was gone at the ground level!
He also said that AT&T will no longer reinstall landlines in the rural area. NP!
 
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