We had a strike july 4 2019. You are right , surge protectors are no match for lightning. unplug everything you can if you hear thunder near by. add quick disconnects to your cable coax and tv coax cables. We were at home when it happened,sounded like a shotgun was fired in the house. Our tv antenna was grounded with an 8 ft copper rod, it probably saved us from having a fire. Still ran in on antenna rotor wiring and vaporized the balun transformer. Lost around 4k of electrical and electronics.
They don't cover direct strikes in this case. None of the individual surge protection companies we had did, or would either. They all claimed it was direct since it was struck on the property on the actual cable.
your best bet is to unplug everything important in a storm, surge supressors or not, NOTHING can stop lightning its too powerful, it blows stuff up, as you found out.
@@tripplefives1402 100% agree. We have lightning arrestor technology it's just not really something you put on every house. You can bet your local hospital and police station didn't have all their equipment blown out.
Surge protectors are no substitute for a lightning protection system. A strike like you had would just blow thru or around the surge protection. You had a few thousand volts in your homes electrical wiring and your low voltage wiring. Have you done a follow up on your remediation?
Have not made a real follow up video. But went thru extensive repair and inspection of everything. We ended up replacing some stuff that didn't even show damage (certain gfci, dimmers, etc) just as a preventive. All panels and subs showed no damage. Burnt damage on the ground rods on both buildings (house and shed) so we replaced and upgraded the rods and the cable. 3- 8ft ground rods now with 4ga at each panel, plus new coax ground blocks that were poorly done back in 78'.
Pt2. I also checked every junction, switch, fixture and outlet for damage, and overall upgraded any that needed anyway since each was pulled. No visible damage to any mechanical or appliances, as it seemed to only be enough for sensitive electronics further down the line. Overall it was a horrible experience. But with the help of a licensed commercial electrician friend for the report, and some dediecated weeks of work myself, all is back to normal, and better than before.
I’m glad to see that all is well. I enjoyed your video and I appreciate you for posting it. Lightning remediation is one of my companies specialties. It’s a part of my job that is always very interesting.
The plot twist is the protector was still good, even the individual ones since it mostly went through the coax/ground. It's all been redone since. We had the minimum 2 ground rods per code for the outbuilding but we come to find out the existing old main service only had one plus the coax ground block was corroded. Everything has been replaced and we now have 8 ground rods, 3 at main service, 3 at outbuilding, 2 at the outdoor lighting sub all with 4ga wire.
Similar thing to my house getting hit last week. 2K in hardware damage. The list of casualties is about 20 pieces of equipment. Ugh. 2 UPS APC Pro Back UPS sacrificed themselves to save the equipment hooked to them. Most of my low voltage bricks are blown too. Outside IN was the invasion path via lawn lights, ethernet, security cameras etc. all dead too.
Your surge protector is installed wrong in the panel. It should be at the very top to grab the voltage spike from the incoming line and send it to ground. I don't think that surge protector would have done much in this case anyway as it looks like it came from the coax cable. Those in panel surge protectors only work for surges from the power line, not from an antenna or cable line for example. Even if it did, those surge protectors will not save your electronics from a direct hit though they can minimize the damage. Hope everything worked out for you.
That is the top space in this particular panel. The knockouts you see on the right do not have stabs on the bus bar behind it. Either way, you are correct, nothing would have stopped this particular strike beside having everything completely isolated
Edit- ahh I had to look back at the video. You are right. Never realized the location back when I installed it nor did the instructions specify placement until I ordered a new type. The new unit is located directly below the main.
Just happened to us too. Same thing surge protectors on computers and on the panel did not help. Lost pool pump, water well pump, whole home generator even the heated floor in my office. What was your total damage? How did your insurance company treat you? I share your pain!
So sorry to hear. It definitely hurts when it happens, not only for the process, but everything you worked for to see gone within a second. Our insurance treated us very well, certain things were depreciated in value due to being older, which is understood, but made replacements a little challenging especially since some newer models of things were more expensive. Our total damage ended up being about $8k in loss items, and an additional $3k in labor which we took care of ourselves, we have a few friends that are electricians also that assisted us in some things to make sure everything else was A.O.K once I handled the actual repairs. As we went thru there was some hidden damage, and some more items that failed then a few weeks later. So the cost prob would have been a tad higher in labor and materials, but we did not want to reopen the already processed/closed claim.
The one thing we had going for us was the amount of exterior grounded electrical items (lights, outlets, additional subpanel/ground rods) that saved a lot of actual wiring or potential structural damage. It dissipated most of it. The lighting hit on one side of the property, and traveled out the exterior grounded items. If we did not have those, we were told it would have tried to take its path thru the house somewhere.
From what I've seen most surge protectors are worthless if you take a direct lightning strike, but the same is often true for lower voltage surges. Many times customers would bring something in for repair after a power surge, and they would often ask why their surge protector didn't protect their devices.
Seansy, this is more common than you think. Lightning will hit near you, in a tree or building, etc. It will travel down that item, jump or attach to a metal pipe or building, and enter your home. It can then go into your devices, through the ground side of the line. Everything in the home is grounded to that side. That line is not protected against the massive power and speed in lightning. Think of it as a 'back door' with no lock on it. I can see evidence of that course of entry in the two outlets you show us. Sorry for your loss. We see it many, many times. While many items CAN be repaired, most are not repairable or not economical to repair. Be safe.
I feel for this! We just had a strike and I came across your video while researching. Ours struck a 60' palm tree and blew out the side when it jumped to the main electrical lines. It blew the transformer fuse (200A) then entered the house through our coaxial internet. So far it fried my modem, router and 24 port POE switch 😭. Not sure how much more will float belly up in the coming weeksor once I restore the network, but it was absolutely crazy. It was a double strike and the TV made zapping noise with each strike like a taser popping!
Test everything well, and have an electrician come out and inspect everything top to bottom. Yours sounds just like ours and there was a lot of hidden damage. Assuming your grounding/rods are good (or were and may have to be replaced now) hopefully you have less physical damage and its just the sensitive electronics that took the zap.
@@seansy59 I think so. I believe that we were saved by the fuse on the transformer. Our service is bonded to the reward in the slab, so I don't see anywhere that it entered in through there, just the internet line. It's crazy what plasma does and how it literally sucks voltage from everything that is conductive. The poor palm is already toast and dead. Stay safe!
Cable internet has a electromagnetic resonance that attracts lighting, so does GFCI outlets. Lightening can travel from the earth thru the copper ground rod for the home's electric panel, landline telephone, and cable, ground rod, or everything if the ground rod is shared. The ground rod driven into the earth, can be the entry point for lighting to hit the home. Lightening can travel thru the earth, in what's called step potential phenomenon. I had unplugged my router from my computer once, lightening hit the power pole, the lightning traveled thru the cable line into the router, then shot out the unplugged ethernet cable going down a hallway hitting a ceiling fixture, and entering the bathroom's open door, & hit the ceiling fixture. A router still working attracts lightening, and the lightening will shoot out of the ethernet cable to find something grounded instead of the computer.
If it's one thing I've learned about lightning, is it doesn't give a sh*t what you have or how its connected. Best thing is to unplug everything to the point where you can pack it away if desired. After that it's all luck and hope. Because it may hit the 4 ft mailbox next to the 200ft tree, or just hit the chimney and burn down the house instead!
My top of the line Belkin surge protectors melted. A lightening strike is probably at a million joules. Also, lightening can travel throughout the home via the ground prong. Surge protectors do not protect the ground prong. Just the hot wire, the green, & white wires aren't protected. This was told to me by Best Buy Geek Squad. Best Buy had sold the lightening protectors that I thought were no good, but the lightening was more powerful, and traveled thru the ground prong wire. Surge protectors do not protect anything but the hot black wire, and lightening in the green ground wire, & white neutral wire, melts, & destroys everything it passes thru.
@@joeybarrelwilde The idea of a "lightning protector" or any surge suppressor being able to stop lightning is absolutely laughable. A lightning bolt itself is 200 million volts or more, at thousands of amps. If lightning hits your house, or even close enough, it will send thousands of volts burning through the wires if it can find a path, arcing through and destroying ANYTHING that gets in its way. The only safe thing to do is unplug anything electronic that is valuable, stay away from windows, and do NOT take a shower or bath during a thunderstorm! Being inside a house or other fully enclosed building is still the safest place to be during a storm though. You're also relatively safe inside a car as long as it has a metal body, because of the "Faraday Effect."
SpeakerFreak95 The qsc amps works fine thankfully. They were unplugged during the storm. Somehow they survived since they were connected/linked to everything else (coax, hdmi, rca, etc)
Update- Insurance process is slow. We may or may not get reimbursed for certain items that were purchased at sale price or are discontinued. But we are trying. I was asked about people wanting to help, and asking how. At this time I have many helping hands for when repairs come. But If you would like to donate to help rebuild anything helps and I highly appreciate it. Donation link in comments. Whether you donate or not, I want to say thank you to all of my subscribers. I've gotten a lot of messages about this and how they could help or donate, and if I'm okay. I will keep you all updated! Thankyou again, Sean
Surge protectors aren't lightning arrestors. Best thing is to put a lightning rod on your house, and everything should be grounded, including coax and ethernet.
Going back nearly 50 years, my mum would unplug everything and take the coax out if the TV just before a storm. This is where you find the insurance doesn't cover so called "acts of god"
U need to pick up ur game on ground rods around your house and on ur roof couple that with a high end whole home surge protector and hi end surge protector for all ur plugs
Had all the surge protection when this happened. Panel mount, and point of use. Did not help with direct strike to coax. We now have 7 new ground rods though total for the electrical system, lightning arrestor on coax, new panel mount surge, and new UPS's on all devices.
@@seansy59 Be sure to watch videos from MikeHoltNEC on the topic of grounding. He's considered the authority in the industry. What you need are lightning rods on the roof. Your extra grounds won't save you.
Box surge protectors are unprotected, they are overpriced and junk. You need a TrippLite ISOBAR unit on-top of the panel protector. In addition, Coax surge suppression is all garbage, you need a breaker switch & lightning arrestor on it at minimum. UPS's on-top of the ISOBAR units are a good way to go. Most surge protectors do what they say they do, protect you from surges, not strikes.
Couch cough nobody installs surge protectors until it's too late. Install one on the sub panel that has a high joule rating, you need to check if they work, they will not work if there is no ground
Yeah a lot of people have had just near strikes (couple hundred yards), and when i ask if they had protection they're like "no". Prob woulda saved them. In my case everything I had doesn't matter with a direct strike and one very near one (less than 50ft) Blew right thru everything. Panel mount surge, individual surge protectors, line conditioners, lightning arrestors. Most came thru the coax also which had a protector on it at the service/was grounded to the main panel. Blew it right up. Just replaced 10 ft of melted coaxial tv cable today. 3 ground rods did nothing. Lightning has its ways I suppose...
I had a breaker to my bedroom and the back half of the house, when it was a heavy rainstorm or there was a lot of wind. eventually it burned out! My moms BF blamed it on my 8 outlet Home theater grade surge protector, and so did the landlord. This breaker also controlled the front half of the kitchen. Apparently the breaker was over 30 years old! The hardware store guy heard the brand name "Murray" and was alarmed!
Raymond Leggs We have been in the process of getting ready to replace our poorly done/overloaded electrical service original from 1978 before this happened due to the aging condition of it and inability to add any additional protection or replace wire. But all this happened before we could get to it. I guess bad things happen in waves. So far insurance hasn't gotten back to us yet so we don't like what's happening. Later next month we plan on redoing our service panel, installing whole house surge protection, generator interlock, and redoing/installing the ground rods.
Most does. Sometimes depends on the insurance and the policy chosen. Holding my breath on hoping the insurance covers 100%. All of this is stuff that I can never afford again. So if insurance doesn't take care of it, that's it for me....
Lightning hit my CB radio tower and damage all my equipment from my shack to the out building I was inside the the garage then my house. though the coax electoral panel all three panel . 13,000in damage I'm lucky to be alive I can relate next time a storm happen I''ll unplug everything .
I wonder what benefit might come from killing the electric panel main breaker and disconnecting cable at the home point of entry.
There is no protection from a direct lightning strike!
Even unplugging does not always work, but better than not unplugging.
Thank you, and good luck.
yes, there is, you need a lightning rod high enough and a ground rod, so the lightning won´t hit anything else.
Induction voltage from plasma is nasty!
We had a strike july 4 2019. You are right , surge protectors are no match for lightning. unplug everything you can if you hear thunder near by. add quick disconnects to your cable coax and tv coax cables. We were at home when it happened,sounded like a shotgun was fired in the house. Our tv antenna was grounded with an 8 ft copper rod, it probably saved us from having a fire. Still ran in on antenna rotor wiring and vaporized the balun transformer. Lost around 4k of electrical and electronics.
This is why I unplug all of my computers and weather radios whenever a storm hits...
Square D homeline in panel will ensure up to $50,000 worth of damage equipment thanks for showing us what got hit
They don't cover direct strikes in this case. None of the individual surge protection companies we had did, or would either. They all claimed it was direct since it was struck on the property on the actual cable.
your best bet is to unplug everything important in a storm, surge supressors or not, NOTHING can stop lightning its too powerful, it blows stuff up, as you found out.
@@tripplefives1402 100% agree. We have lightning arrestor technology it's just not really something you put on every house. You can bet your local hospital and police station didn't have all their equipment blown out.
1,000,000 lightning strikes in two hours? You were a spark plug..
Surge protectors are no substitute for a lightning protection system. A strike like you had would just blow thru or around the surge protection. You had a few thousand volts in your homes electrical wiring and your low voltage wiring. Have you done a follow up on your remediation?
Have not made a real follow up video. But went thru extensive repair and inspection of everything. We ended up replacing some stuff that didn't even show damage (certain gfci, dimmers, etc) just as a preventive. All panels and subs showed no damage. Burnt damage on the ground rods on both buildings (house and shed) so we replaced and upgraded the rods and the cable. 3- 8ft ground rods now with 4ga at each panel, plus new coax ground blocks that were poorly done back in 78'.
Pt2. I also checked every junction, switch, fixture and outlet for damage, and overall upgraded any that needed anyway since each was pulled. No visible damage to any mechanical or appliances, as it seemed to only be enough for sensitive electronics further down the line. Overall it was a horrible experience. But with the help of a licensed commercial electrician friend for the report, and some dediecated weeks of work myself, all is back to normal, and better than before.
I’m glad to see that all is well. I enjoyed your video and I appreciate you for posting it. Lightning remediation is one of my companies specialties. It’s a part of my job that is always very interesting.
The panel surge protector should be at the very top did you have ground rods outside ?
The plot twist is the protector was still good, even the individual ones since it mostly went through the coax/ground. It's all been redone since. We had the minimum 2 ground rods per code for the outbuilding but we come to find out the existing old main service only had one plus the coax ground block was corroded. Everything has been replaced and we now have 8 ground rods, 3 at main service, 3 at outbuilding, 2 at the outdoor lighting sub all with 4ga wire.
Similar thing to my house getting hit last week. 2K in hardware damage. The list of casualties is about 20 pieces of equipment. Ugh. 2 UPS APC Pro Back UPS sacrificed themselves to save the equipment hooked to them. Most of my low voltage bricks are blown too. Outside IN was the invasion path via lawn lights, ethernet, security cameras etc. all dead too.
Your surge protector is installed wrong in the panel. It should be at the very top to grab the voltage spike from the incoming line and send it to ground. I don't think that surge protector would have done much in this case anyway as it looks like it came from the coax cable. Those in panel surge protectors only work for surges from the power line, not from an antenna or cable line for example. Even if it did, those surge protectors will not save your electronics from a direct hit though they can minimize the damage. Hope everything worked out for you.
That is the top space in this particular panel. The knockouts you see on the right do not have stabs on the bus bar behind it.
Either way, you are correct, nothing would have stopped this particular strike beside having everything completely isolated
Edit- ahh I had to look back at the video. You are right. Never realized the location back when I installed it nor did the instructions specify placement until I ordered a new type. The new unit is located directly below the main.
Just happened to us too. Same thing surge protectors on computers and on the panel did not help. Lost pool pump, water well pump, whole home generator even the heated floor in my office. What was your total damage? How did your insurance company treat you? I share your pain!
So sorry to hear. It definitely hurts when it happens, not only for the process, but everything you worked for to see gone within a second. Our insurance treated us very well, certain things were depreciated in value due to being older, which is understood, but made replacements a little challenging especially since some newer models of things were more expensive. Our total damage ended up being about $8k in loss items, and an additional $3k in labor which we took care of ourselves, we have a few friends that are electricians also that assisted us in some things to make sure everything else was A.O.K once I handled the actual repairs. As we went thru there was some hidden damage, and some more items that failed then a few weeks later. So the cost prob would have been a tad higher in labor and materials, but we did not want to reopen the already processed/closed claim.
The one thing we had going for us was the amount of exterior grounded electrical items (lights, outlets, additional subpanel/ground rods) that saved a lot of actual wiring or potential structural damage. It dissipated most of it. The lighting hit on one side of the property, and traveled out the exterior grounded items. If we did not have those, we were told it would have tried to take its path thru the house somewhere.
Jesus christ what type of lighting did u have
From what I've seen most surge protectors are worthless if you take a direct lightning strike, but the same is often true for lower voltage surges. Many times customers would bring something in for repair after a power surge, and they would often ask why their surge protector didn't protect their devices.
Seansy, this is more common than you think. Lightning will hit near you, in a tree or building, etc. It will travel down that item, jump or attach to a metal pipe or building, and enter your home. It can then go into your devices, through the ground side of the line. Everything in the home is grounded to that side. That line is not protected against the massive power and speed in lightning. Think of it as a 'back door' with no lock on it. I can see evidence of that course of entry in the two outlets you show us. Sorry for your loss. We see it many, many times. While many items CAN be repaired, most are not repairable or not economical to repair. Be safe.
I feel for this! We just had a strike and I came across your video while researching. Ours struck a 60' palm tree and blew out the side when it jumped to the main electrical lines. It blew the transformer fuse (200A) then entered the house through our coaxial internet. So far it fried my modem, router and 24 port POE switch 😭. Not sure how much more will float belly up in the coming weeksor once I restore the network, but it was absolutely crazy. It was a double strike and the TV made zapping noise with each strike like a taser popping!
Test everything well, and have an electrician come out and inspect everything top to bottom. Yours sounds just like ours and there was a lot of hidden damage. Assuming your grounding/rods are good (or were and may have to be replaced now) hopefully you have less physical damage and its just the sensitive electronics that took the zap.
@@seansy59 I think so. I believe that we were saved by the fuse on the transformer. Our service is bonded to the reward in the slab, so I don't see anywhere that it entered in through there, just the internet line. It's crazy what plasma does and how it literally sucks voltage from everything that is conductive. The poor palm is already toast and dead. Stay safe!
Cable internet has a electromagnetic resonance that attracts lighting, so does GFCI outlets. Lightening can travel from the earth thru the copper ground rod for the home's electric panel, landline telephone, and cable, ground rod, or everything if the ground rod is shared. The ground rod driven into the earth, can be the entry point for lighting to hit the home. Lightening can travel thru the earth, in what's called step potential phenomenon. I had unplugged my router from my computer once, lightening hit the power pole, the lightning traveled thru the cable line into the router, then shot out the unplugged ethernet cable going down a hallway hitting a ceiling fixture, and entering the bathroom's open door, & hit the ceiling fixture. A router still working attracts lightening, and the lightening will shoot out of the ethernet cable to find something grounded instead of the computer.
If it's one thing I've learned about lightning, is it doesn't give a sh*t what you have or how its connected. Best thing is to unplug everything to the point where you can pack it away if desired. After that it's all luck and hope. Because it may hit the 4 ft mailbox next to the 200ft tree, or just hit the chimney and burn down the house instead!
My top of the line Belkin surge protectors melted. A lightening strike is probably at a million joules. Also, lightening can travel throughout the home via the ground prong. Surge protectors do not protect the ground prong. Just the hot wire, the green, & white wires aren't protected. This was told to me by Best Buy Geek Squad. Best Buy had sold the lightening protectors that I thought were no good, but the lightening was more powerful, and traveled thru the ground prong wire. Surge protectors do not protect anything but the hot black wire, and lightening in the green ground wire, & white neutral wire, melts, & destroys everything it passes thru.
@@joeybarrelwilde The idea of a "lightning protector" or any surge suppressor being able to stop lightning is absolutely laughable. A lightning bolt itself is 200 million volts or more, at thousands of amps. If lightning hits your house, or even close enough, it will send thousands of volts burning through the wires if it can find a path, arcing through and destroying ANYTHING that gets in its way. The only safe thing to do is unplug anything electronic that is valuable, stay away from windows, and do NOT take a shower or bath during a thunderstorm! Being inside a house or other fully enclosed building is still the safest place to be during a storm though. You're also relatively safe inside a car as long as it has a metal body, because of the "Faraday Effect."
Sean.
I can repair those QSC amps you have if they need the repair. I've got parts for that series.
SpeakerFreak95 The qsc amps works fine thankfully. They were unplugged during the storm. Somehow they survived since they were connected/linked to everything else (coax, hdmi, rca, etc)
Lightning is a mind of it's own.....
Worse time to play your PC games is during summer time due to hurricane seasons
When theres a normal lighting storm that poses no threat i will leave plugged in but when, the real deal comes in we gotta unplug everything lol
Ebay is your friend, when it comes to getting this stuff back on the cheap. You may get something even better, used.
Update- Insurance process is slow. We may or may not get reimbursed for certain items that were purchased at sale price or are discontinued. But we are trying. I was asked about people wanting to help, and asking how. At this time I have many helping hands for when repairs come. But If you would like to donate to help rebuild anything helps and I highly appreciate it. Donation link in comments. Whether you donate or not, I want to say thank you to all of my subscribers. I've gotten a lot of messages about this and how they could help or donate, and if I'm okay. I will keep you all updated! Thankyou again, Sean
Surge protectors aren't lightning arrestors. Best thing is to put a lightning rod on your house, and everything should be grounded, including coax and ethernet.
What protection did you have coax wise?
Coax was bonded at service entrance with a surge protector ground block and also grounded at outbuilding sub all per code.
@@seansy59 Wow!
Rather intense then.
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is the coffee maker good
Yes, I never keep it plugged in unless I'm brewing
Going back nearly 50 years, my mum would unplug everything and take the coax out if the TV just before a storm.
This is where you find the insurance doesn't cover so called "acts of god"
how did it mess up hot tub? display not working?
The surge fried the main board and sensors. All it did was run the circulation pump as soon as it was plugged in. No control over anything.
U need to pick up ur game on ground rods around your house and on ur roof couple that with a high end whole home surge protector and hi end surge protector for all ur plugs
Had all the surge protection when this happened. Panel mount, and point of use. Did not help with direct strike to coax. We now have 7 new ground rods though total for the electrical system, lightning arrestor on coax, new panel mount surge, and new UPS's on all devices.
@@seansy59 Be sure to watch videos from MikeHoltNEC on the topic of grounding. He's considered the authority in the industry. What you need are lightning rods on the roof. Your extra grounds won't save you.
I had lightning hit my house a few times, last year we had a storm and got hit by 4 lightning strikes, nothing was fried however
Box surge protectors are unprotected, they are overpriced and junk. You need a TrippLite ISOBAR unit on-top of the panel protector. In addition, Coax surge suppression is all garbage, you need a breaker switch & lightning arrestor on it at minimum. UPS's on-top of the ISOBAR units are a good way to go. Most surge protectors do what they say they do, protect you from surges, not strikes.
Couch cough nobody installs surge protectors until it's too late. Install one on the sub panel that has a high joule rating, you need to check if they work, they will not work if there is no ground
Yeah a lot of people have had just near strikes (couple hundred yards), and when i ask if they had protection they're like "no". Prob woulda saved them. In my case everything I had doesn't matter with a direct strike and one very near one (less than 50ft) Blew right thru everything. Panel mount surge, individual surge protectors, line conditioners, lightning arrestors. Most came thru the coax also which had a protector on it at the service/was grounded to the main panel. Blew it right up. Just replaced 10 ft of melted coaxial tv cable today. 3 ground rods did nothing. Lightning has its ways I suppose...
I had a breaker to my bedroom and the back half of the house, when it was a heavy rainstorm or there was a lot of wind. eventually it burned out! My moms BF blamed it on my 8 outlet Home theater grade surge protector, and so did the landlord. This breaker also controlled the front half of the kitchen. Apparently the breaker was over 30 years old! The hardware store guy heard the brand name "Murray" and was alarmed!
Raymond Leggs We have been in the process of getting ready to replace our poorly done/overloaded electrical service original from 1978 before this happened due to the aging condition of it and inability to add any additional protection or replace wire. But all this happened before we could get to it. I guess bad things happen in waves. So far insurance hasn't gotten back to us yet so we don't like what's happening. Later next month we plan on redoing our service panel, installing whole house surge protection, generator interlock, and redoing/installing the ground rods.
lightning destroys whatever it hits, doesnt matter what it is, surge protectors get fried, its too powerful , just unplug.
Please tell me insurance pays for this kind of stuff.
Most does. Sometimes depends on the insurance and the policy chosen. Holding my breath on hoping the insurance covers 100%. All of this is stuff that I can never afford again. So if insurance doesn't take care of it, that's it for me....
That sucks man
Man if thunder kill my $5000 pc I would be in sad pain.
Think of losing $30,000 or more in equipment and i I infrastructure. But hey we werent injured
Lightning hit my CB radio tower and damage all my equipment from my shack to the out building I was inside the the garage then my house. though the coax electoral panel all three panel . 13,000in damage I'm lucky to be alive I can relate next time a storm happen I''ll unplug everything .
Id cut down as many trees around the area!
Raymond Leggs then your house is the highest point and will probably get hit even more