People in @Eulalia 's region are asking for trouble while putting such lightning attracting monuments on hill tops.View attachment 1324024 (Agnew Monument in Leswalt, Galloway peninsula).
Surge protectors are good and everyone should have them. However, nothing can standup to the power of a lightning strike. And, electricity can do weird things. The strike that took out my router and PC in March also killed my DVD player. The surge mus have come through the fiber optic line (which can't be connected to a surge protector), passed through the router and killed the PC motherboard. However, my printer, which is connected to the PC of course wasn't harmed. The DVD player was in another room about forty feet away. It had no outside connection except through the wall outlet. The TV, which is plugged into the same outlet, was unaffected. Nothing else in the house was affected. About ten years ago, a strike took out my TV but didn't affect the DVD player (different one, that one died a natural death years later) or the cable box.
We can hardly blame @Eulalia for such guilt by association…but I can surely find the slave-cunt guilty of something, ANYTHING else…and gleefully visit deserved horrors upon that yielding flesh as rightful Punishment for said transgressions!People in @Eulalia 's region are asking for trouble while putting such lightning attracting monuments on hill tops.
View attachment 1324024 (Agnew Monument in Leswalt, Galloway peninsula).
Supposedly Lago Marcaibo in Venezuela had the most frequent lightning strikes in the world. People blame it on the air from the Andes meeting the tropical air and the sea. I wonder why people don't respect the earth more--it's a lot bigger than us and our puny works. But, they don't.
Yes, I don't profess to understand physics, it's a big black hole in my mind - but I don't think my micro-catastrophe was caused by a surge in the power supply - like you say, other things that would surely have been affected weren't - but it seems that, when lightning strikes, there's a scary lot of power surging through the atmosphere that can do weird things in many different ways.Surge protectors are good and everyone should have them. However, nothing can standup to the power of a lightning strike. And, electricity can do weird things. The strike that took out my router and PC in March also killed my DVD player. The surge mus have come through the fiber optic line (which can't be connected to a surge protector), passed through the router and killed the PC motherboard. However, my printer, which is connected to the PC of course wasn't harmed. The DVD player was in another room about forty feet away. It had no outside connection except through the wall outlet. The TV, which is plugged into the same outlet, was unaffected. Nothing else in the house was affected. About ten years ago, a strike took out my TV but didn't affect the DVD player (different one, that one died a natural death years later) or the cable box.
The best way to stay safe is to be in a Faraday Cage.
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Welcome back, Eul. As you can see, we were lost without you.
I'm reliably informed by my mum's partner, who knows about such things, that the damage caused by a lightning strike is generally due to a sudden and very brief high voltage gradient between the ground line and other parts of the device. In particular this can be a menace to anything that receives a signal such as a tv or radio, as the voltage difference between the antenna and the ground can easily be in the order of thousands of volts, albeit only for a few milliseconds, but that's more than enough to destroy delicate electronic parts that are usually only rated for up to 15-20 volts or so.
Ooohhhhh… you spoil that slave sooooo much… clearly you know exactly what you’re doing to her… poor slave eul, she’s probably too wet to actually type now!We can hardly blame @Eulalia for such guilt by association…but I can surely find the slave-cunt guilty of something, ANYTHING else…and gleefully visit deserved horrors upon that yielding flesh as rightful Punishment for said transgressions!
Power lines are protected against lightning. The upper line, linking the tops of the masts, serve to attract and divert lighting. In case a power line would be hit yet, there are circuit breakers installed to avoid damage. This can be noticed when, during a thunderstorm, light briefly flickers off and on. That means, a line was hit by lightning, but its spreading was stopped by the breakers.
That’s a punishable offense as well!Ooohhhhh… you spoil that slave sooooo much… clearly you know exactly what you’re doing to her… poor slave eul, she’s probably too wet to actually type now!
Yes, that's what all the 'what to do' advice says. Trouble was, there wasn't any thunderstorm, just a pleasant afternoon with sunny intervals. It was, literally, a bolt from the blue. A heavy shower followed straight after, with more rumbles as the thunder moved away, but we'd had no warning noises. Admittedly the forecast showed such wee sharp showers moving across, but they were mainly on the high hills, this was a rogue one that headed down the glen to give Eul a fright!
Physics…black hole…Hawking would have laughed.
The most common type of circuit breakers look like a metal rod across an insulator, which is pretty much what it is.
Speaking as a resident of the Lightning Capital of the US, I can testify that the "bolt from the blue" is a real thing. Lighting can arc out of a thundercloud and strike up to twenty miles away.
That's very likely what happened. The cumulonimbus clouds were moving across the hills about 10 miles away. I think it was a pole carrying a local power cable that got hit, the 'fireball' my neighbour saw would be consistent with that, and I heard men working there first thing the next morning, no doubt mending damage and setting the system right. It was scarily close!Lighting can arc out of a thundercloud and strike up to twenty miles away.
I witnessed one come out of the top of a lone thunderhead and strike about eight miles away. Lightning is amazing and scary and not to be taken lightly.
Quite a number of people are killed by lightning every year.
Hm - that 'surge arrester' looks interesting - what kind of surges does it arrest?
Whatever it’s for, it’ll take a ton of lube.Hm - that 'surge arrester' looks interesting - what kind of surges does it arrest?
