14 Jul
2001
14 Jul
'01
5:14 p.m.
Yes. The control board in my Dad's garage door opener was killed by a close
lightning strike. My sister, who owns the house next door to him, lost the
motherboard on her PC -- and it wasn't on at the time, just plugged in.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Saturday, July 14, 2001 9:00 PM
Subject: thunderstorm damages!
I've been accumulating the damages from a recent
thunderstorm. Wow!
Originally I thought
it was just a GFI breaker and the phones. But it turns out that a
computer got hit (just a PC),
and the cable box as well as a TV. I'm making a list (8 entries so far).
Thank God my bro-in-law
here in Maryland gave me a surge supressor that I put on my SWTPC. Makes
me think I need
more of those things.
Anyone else have such an event happen? Also, take this as a warning to
protect you most valuable
possessions. I intend to get a few more surge suppressors to protect
stuff. This is the one and only
time that this has happened to me, and I'm felling lucky.
Eric
14 Jul
14 Jul
5:34 p.m.
Yes. The control board in my Dad's garage door
opener was killed by a close
lightning strike. My sister, who owns the house next door to him, lost the
motherboard on her PC -- and it wasn't on at the time, just plugged in.
I've seen ISA based internal modems that took surges from
strikes on the line. Some of them looked like they caught fire or at
least got very hot.
Jeff
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6 p.m.
A building owned by my employer took a strike and blew out their SCO
server. The ISA mux card serving terminals and the motherboard were
physically scorched but surprisingly the SCSI peripherals and RAM was all
OK. I believe one or two terminals were also scorched.
It surprised me at the time that the whole system was not wasted. It went
on to perform flawlessly for another year till replaced.
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
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Yes. The
control board in my Dad's garage door opener was killed by a close
lightning strike. My sister, who owns the house next door to him, lost the
motherboard on her PC -- and it wasn't on at the time, just plugged in.
I've seen ISA based internal modems that took surges from
strikes on the line. Some of them looked like they caught fire or at
least got very hot.
Jeff
15 Jul
15 Jul
7:26 p.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
>Yes. The control board in my Dad's garage door
opener was killed by a close
>lightning strike. My sister, who owns the house next door to him, lost the
>motherboard on her PC -- and it wasn't on at the time, just plugged in.
I've seen ISA based internal modems that took
surges from
strikes on the line. Some of them looked like they caught fire or at
least got very hot.
A month or so ago, we sold a PC-based DEC server which we were given. It did
behave rather queerly in the SCSI department, but otherwise fine. We could
never establish whether this was due to the absolutely scorched area around on
of the screws in the motherboard. It had apprently burned, with a 3 cm radius
black spot around the screw. The PCB had literally turned into charcoal, and
you could scratch the different layers off like scales.
Still, the server ran Win NT without complaining. I suppose that's what sets
big-name server gear apart from your common or garden Taiwanese manufacturer.
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