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<blockquote data-quote="Sleepingwiththefish" data-source="post: 1069913"><p>Thunderstorms are not very common here, but sometimes seems like thunderseason, one after another, with very powerful lightning strikes, is not uncommon a house get hit directly or just a few meters away (on trees).</p><p></p><p>I had many fried equipment in the past, earth grounding seem useless for those strikes, also surge protectors, killing power to the house would only help a bit (for keeping grid surges out), but powerful strikes always seem to 'energize' any cables and then anything sensitive connected will 'blow'.</p><p>The last one I remember, a washing machine, control module burned out completely. (just for beeing connected to the wall, but the power was disconnected)</p><p>So, the only thing that seems to work for me is disconnecting everything, still with a direct powerful hit there's no escape...</p><p></p><p>And yes, modern large buildings are more likely to get hit but provide much better protection (as they provide many low resistance paths to the ground...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sleepingwiththefish, post: 1069913"] Thunderstorms are not very common here, but sometimes seems like thunderseason, one after another, with very powerful lightning strikes, is not uncommon a house get hit directly or just a few meters away (on trees). I had many fried equipment in the past, earth grounding seem useless for those strikes, also surge protectors, killing power to the house would only help a bit (for keeping grid surges out), but powerful strikes always seem to 'energize' any cables and then anything sensitive connected will 'blow'. The last one I remember, a washing machine, control module burned out completely. (just for beeing connected to the wall, but the power was disconnected) So, the only thing that seems to work for me is disconnecting everything, still with a direct powerful hit there's no escape... And yes, modern large buildings are more likely to get hit but provide much better protection (as they provide many low resistance paths to the ground...) [/QUOTE]
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