- Feb 22, 2007
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Last night about 2 am there was a huge lightning strike. I have been around a lot of power discharges and close to strikes, but this one was massive. Everyone this morning around the apartments was talking about how it woke them up and I know it made me jump straight up in bed.
Everything of mine was fine. All run off a ups + surge protectors + arrestors on all incoming lines so my stuff was okay. We have about 55 apartments here and so far the tally is:
14 TV dead
11 Cable boxes dead
12 apt whose sat boxes either don't work or are showing no satellite found.
A few people here know that I am an EE so they came to me this morning and I just got through making the rounds trying to help people get some TV back.
Posting this to give others a heads up .
Some of the things I found:
Majority plugged directly into the wall no protection.
Satellites installed with no grounding blocks.
Cable installs with no grounding blocks or arrestors.
Grounding blocks installed but not connect to any ground wire.
You might want to walk outside and make sure the cable/sat is installed properly . Just follow the cable and make sure it atleast goes through a grounding block.
Everything of mine was fine. All run off a ups + surge protectors + arrestors on all incoming lines so my stuff was okay. We have about 55 apartments here and so far the tally is:
14 TV dead
11 Cable boxes dead
12 apt whose sat boxes either don't work or are showing no satellite found.
A few people here know that I am an EE so they came to me this morning and I just got through making the rounds trying to help people get some TV back.
Posting this to give others a heads up .
Some of the things I found:
Majority plugged directly into the wall no protection.
Satellites installed with no grounding blocks.
Cable installs with no grounding blocks or arrestors.
Grounding blocks installed but not connect to any ground wire.
You might want to walk outside and make sure the cable/sat is installed properly . Just follow the cable and make sure it atleast goes through a grounding block.