Subj : Re: Power issues
To   : Utopian Galt
From : ogg
Date : Sun Jul 10 2022 07:43 pm

 UG> I lost a desktop pc due to a power surge. The motherboard died, but I
 UG> was able to rescue the hard drive.
 UG> 

Way back, we lived on top of the highest hill in the county.  Our next door neighbor's house got hit by lightning.  We just lost a surge protector that my computer was hooked up to.  The real interesting thing that came out of that episode was when the phone tech came to check on all of the phone boxes in front of the houses, she told us it wasn't unusual for those boxes to have scorch marks from the surges.  Since then, I've had all of our electronics on surge protectors.  Unfortunately, they don't protect from sudden and/or quickly repeated power outages.  That's what prompted me to start this thread.

ogg

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Lufkin, TX 
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