Originally Posted by snap  My system took a hit from lightning one week ago. I heard a loud crack inside the house. I had disconnected my Sky+, routers and computers.
My Pace 2600 was still connected when the bolt struck. It survived, (Pace once told me that their boxes have some lightning protection) but the LNB did not. Only one polarity on one of the four outputs was working. There are four cables buried leading from the dish, about 25 metres. The dish mounting is earthed, as it is bolted into the ground. The dish is a fibreglass Prodelin.
There are two earth terminals on a quad Invacom. Would it have made any difference had the LNB been earthed? |
The lightning probably Earthed itself through the buried cable sheath (it's pretty powerful stuff!!!), so you might want to dig up the cable and check it's condition incase the sheath is fried and the cable(s) gets waterlogged....
As for the LNB, personally I wouldn't think it would make any difference if it was grounded, as if it was struck again it would probably get fried anyway, you'd probably have better luck setting up a lightning rod nearby and hope that it attracts any lightning away from your dish...
