Subj : Power issues
To   : ogg
From : TassieBob
Date : Mon Jul 11 2022 11:55 am


 og> that episode was when the phone tech came to check on all of the phone
 og> boxes in front of the houses, she told us it wasn't unusual for those
 og> boxes to have scorch marks from the surges.

Absolutely!  I was working near a communications facility on the top of a hill here and the tech working in that facility called me over to check out the lightning damage to the incoming copper lines.  Huge scortch mark on the wall, and the frame had actually come off the wall and was dangling.

Another incident I saw the aftermath of had blown roughly half the copper pairs in a telco pillar like fuses, and popped probably half the OVP modules in the DSLAM cabinet nearby.

Lightning makes a mess...

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