Re: After lightning strike some USB ports acting strange

"McSpreader" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

1) From the devices zapped - "SoundBlaster card and dialup and ADSL
modems, some of my USB ports" - how do you conclude that the surge
problem arrived via the power feed?

(I'm the OP.) We're on three-phase here (220 volts). However the strike was *very* close--less than a kilometer I think. If the surge didn't arrive via the power feed, is there another way that the devices could have been affected?

We're going to have an arrester or somesuch installed between the main power panel and the fee, which should take care of surges. But I'm worried by the implication that the problem could have been caused some other way.

--
Bob

Kanyak's Doghouse
http://www.kanyak.com

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