codemonkey
Shared on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 21:35Yes, that's correct I bring on the hate when its all up in lightening outside.
Tonight we must have gotten a direct hit, which then went through the CAT5 wiring (network cable) and fried my 16-port NETGEAR switch (it was burning hot, and led's were stuck on and faded). Which sent a charge into my new NETGEAR router and knocked out port-4 (perminantly). It then charged through to my main PC and took out its primary network card (luckly the motherboard has two of them). All in all, I've got a few hundred bucks in replacement parts before my house is back up and networked. I had to stack up some old 4-port hubs I stole from work a few months ago to keep some of the important stuff running (i.e. xbox 360's).
I knew something was wrong, the Wife told me the entire placed flickerd, all our fire alarms went off, and everything in the house started freaking.
Last year we lost the microwave display to power, the year before the garage door opener was shot, that same year I lost a PC to the charge.
Oddly enough, I've learned to put surge strips all over the place. Something connected must have managed to slip my grasp and send the power THROUGH the network cables (what can ya do, really? you can try so hard) and started taking stuff out through the NON-powered side.
Of course had it went through the actual power outlet the A/C adapters, surge strips, or something else would have stood a better chance against the surge.
Fuck.
CodeMonkey
Tonight we must have gotten a direct hit, which then went through the CAT5 wiring (network cable) and fried my 16-port NETGEAR switch (it was burning hot, and led's were stuck on and faded). Which sent a charge into my new NETGEAR router and knocked out port-4 (perminantly). It then charged through to my main PC and took out its primary network card (luckly the motherboard has two of them). All in all, I've got a few hundred bucks in replacement parts before my house is back up and networked. I had to stack up some old 4-port hubs I stole from work a few months ago to keep some of the important stuff running (i.e. xbox 360's).
I knew something was wrong, the Wife told me the entire placed flickerd, all our fire alarms went off, and everything in the house started freaking.
Last year we lost the microwave display to power, the year before the garage door opener was shot, that same year I lost a PC to the charge.
Oddly enough, I've learned to put surge strips all over the place. Something connected must have managed to slip my grasp and send the power THROUGH the network cables (what can ya do, really? you can try so hard) and started taking stuff out through the NON-powered side.
Of course had it went through the actual power outlet the A/C adapters, surge strips, or something else would have stood a better chance against the surge.
Fuck.
CodeMonkey
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Submitted by codemonkey on Fri, 07/21/2006 - 21:47
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