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I don't even own an APC. ITS A BATTERY BACKUP ANYWAY. And where is this magic gizmo that will stop lightening from hitting your house that costs "tens or 100 times less money" ?

A long metal rod and some wire I would think. :ohwell:
 

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No, but it would direct it into the ground instead of into your home. Wouldn't it?
 

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Well then.. I can confirm from this that lightning sucks! Oh well, I've gone 34 years without it happening to me, I'll take my chances and not move to the desert.
 
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I can't believe this thread. Still goin'? lol
I have a UPS, but it's to keep giving me power when we get trees falling into our utility wires. Happens every smeggin' year.
No, you aren't protected by lightning by surge arresters. You need a dedicated lightning countermeasure built into your power system for that. Typical residences don't have that here in the U.S. either.
However, if you set it up exactly the way it's detailed in their warranty, APC will be replacing your lightning destroyed electronics to avoid the bad PR of not doing so.
You must read the warranty carefully. It's set up to give them many outs.
They know their stuff couldn't have helped, but they only have to pay out once in a long while while millions of ignorant people just don't set up the way their warranty specifies. For instance; your APC MUST be plugged into a receptacle that has at least 10 meters of wire between it and the building's service. A large percentage of people fail right there because there computer room is less than that from their panel.
It's far better, if you have a lot of money invested in your PC, HDTV, etc, to just get homeowners insurance that covers lightning strikes.
 
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Hi everyone!

Are you still squabble about the same?!!


It was ages since I started that topic, during that time I have salved post problems at my new computer and assemble it again with new motherboard etcetera.

This is even worse then a tsunami!

Seriously, it's nice that you found something to talk about but everything has to have it's end.

Time for a new topic mates.


Regards, WOLF.
 

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Lightning is definitely pernicious. There have been three lightning strikes over the course of the past few years close to my house. Also, a friend of mine has fallen victim to a couple of strikes--one of which I was present for. In all cases, no harm came to any devices through electrical connections. However, each time a single piece of equipment had an ethernet port blown out. I had an XBox that worked fine except for the fact that it could no longer connect to the Internet and a blown out router on another occasion. My friend had a blow n out router and on another occasion a blown out ethernet port on his PC.

Always with the ethernet ports.
 
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Lightning is definitely pernicious. There have been three lightning strikes over the course of the past few years close to my house.
In each case, that energy was permitted inside the house. Therefore it hunted for and found a path to earth destructively via an appliance.

Destructive surges are an electrical path from cloud to earth. If not earthed before entering, that electrical current will hunt for earth destructively via appliances. Ethernet ports have some of the most robust protection - about 2000 volts. Voltage (and therefore energy dissipation) had to increase to blow through that 2000 volt protection.

Once energy is inside a building, routers are often a ideal outgoing path to earth. Phone lines or cable are earthed where each enter the building – as required by code. Once energy is inside a building, that energy may find earth destructively via ethernet ports and a router. Voltage increases anywhere as necessary to obtain earth.

A typical incoming source of that ethernet or router failure is AC electric - the most commonly struck utility wire. Another reason for failure may be AC electric not earthed to the same earth ground used by the cable or by the telco's 'installed for free' 'whole house' protector.

Lightning is pernicious. But not capricious. In each case, damage existed when energy was permitted inside a building. Damage is always about where that energy dissipates. Energy was not harmlessly absorbed outside. So energy was inside hunting for earth destructively via ethernet ports or router.
 
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