Hey /g/ did a storm ever fry your electronics?

>>55635608
No because all of my valuable electronics are plugged into a surge protector.

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Nah one of these little shits destroyed a motherboard once though
Never buy cheap (<$2) USB peripherals

>>55635621

I like you

>>55635621
Have one of those too for my tv & pc, was wondering if people cam tell me some of their stories

>>55635630
CHINK'D

>>55635621
This. Its easier and cheaper to get a $15 surge protector from walmart then it is to replace all your shit.

>>55635645
>storm going on outside
>in house dry and comfy
>power goes out
>read book
>power goes on
>get on computer again

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>>55635677
Yeah. Had a bitchin' XPS m170, which was hot shit at the time.

Hurricane Ike came through houston and a power surge must have just royally fucked it. I was trying to play a game during the storm, and power kept fluctuating and eventually went out (for over a week).

First and last gaming laptop.

>>55635608
The network port of a motherboard refused to work after a storm. The modem and switch were OK though, and the rest of the mobo worked. A new PCI card was enough.

A client of mine does loss adjustment. We have seen plenty of fried transformers, antennæ and surge protectors.

>>55635608
ya i left my iPhone 6 next to a large piece of sheet metal at the top of a tree once and it got zapped by a lightning bolt

moral of the story: iphones are for fags

>>55635659
Let me tell you a story of a storm where a powerfull magnetic force from a lightning (probably stronger than an EMP) fried up all the security from museum I work at and a lot of other places. In my house the magnetic shock turned off all my electronics for 2 secs.

>>55635695
>inb4 man loss-adjustment
claims adjustment for bloody colonial rebels

I tied my brand new iPhone 6s+ that my wife's boyfriend bought for me as a gift (it was their aniversery but the had to give me a gift to consolidate me). I tied the phone to a kite during a lightning storm and it got struck! wtf i hate lightning now

>>55635705
wait uhh, what do magnetic forces and lightning have to do with each other

>>55635720
That's fucked

>>55635608
Yes. A lightning stroke the power grid near my house, it fried the things plugged in a socket. Two computers, a router and a CRT monitor.

>>55635733
"Objects struck bylightningexperience heat andmagnetic forcesof great magnitude."

>>55635781
I'm asking why magnetic shit happens

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>>55635797
Does this help you in any manner?

>>55635797
>>55635822
Imagine the lightning strike is a wire

>>55635733
>>55635781
>>55635797
Currents exert a change in the magnetic field and vice-versa; that's how transformers work. If suddenly a strong current with a tremendous intensity flows from the firmaments to the ground, a short-lived but strong force, as if those near a lodestone, springs to life.

TLDR: this >>55635822

>>55635822
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>>55635839
The Bible doesn't say anything about this tho...

>>55635822
>2girlslaughingwiththeirhandsincloseproximitytotheirrespectivemouths.gif(1)(1).jpeg

>>55635608
No because I don't live in the 3rd world.

>>55635857
This isn't church, this is science

A router + modem died. Nothing more. They where plugged in directly to the wall socket, no surge protector.

Needed to get rid of that D-LINK DIR 655 anyways. Any torrent would just kill it.

>>55635878
God created science.

>>55635901
For fucks sake

>>55635861
Do you have anything to contribute to the discussion or do we have to put you in time out?

>>55635915
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpigjnKl7nI

Never happened. The worst thing has been my computer rebooting because sometimes during lightning storms the power would go out for a second or two before coming back. This was maybe 10 years ago so it seems nowadays they have better protection in place.

>>55636020
>they
>not using your own protection
Such an oversight is only understandable, but not even then acceptable, if you have underground cabling.

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A power surge wiped my Super Smash Brothers save off the cart after I had unlocked everything. I'm still mad.

>>55635686
That looks beautiful. Also saw it test while watching Grandma's boy. Nice, then Dell went another route and released a more dull generation of XPS laptops(one I currently own).

Fried my family's VCR when I was a kid. Otherwise no.

>>55635686
unlikely, the battery would act as a buffer.

>>55635608
Live in florida for the last 15 years.
Never lost a thing until recently.
Large storm hit a few weeks ago.
Power flicked on and off a few times. My xbox 360 wireless adapter i have plugged into my computer got fried.
2spoopy4me just heard a loud thundercrack

Arguably better protection than a surge protector would just be a simple lightning rod to shunt the high current to ground.

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Story time fags so gather around and stop licking dust off the floor.

>be anon from shitty third world country
>here the electricity/telephone/internet cables are not underground (pic related)
>big storm approaching
>decide not to risk it so I pulled the PC's plug out of the socket
>huge storm ensues, lasts all night
>next day plug my PC back
>press the power button
>nothing
>check if it is plugged and press again
>fuck you, still nothing
>see that modem is not turning on either
>must be a fuse
>nope, the fuse is not blown
>try charging my phone in the same socket and it works

During the night lighting hit the internet cable that was going from the pole to my home and because of that my modem, motherboard and GPU got fried. Fun times.

>>55637018
You're retarded for not unplugging your modem too, that was common knowledge at the time.

>>55635608
no, but school nearby was hit by huge ball lightning. Part of roof was just ripped off and rest of it burned down, some walls cracked/misaligned and all of the electronics inside building fried.

>>55637072
Actually it was unplugged, but who the fuck would pull out the internet cable from it?

>>55637128
Idiot

>>55637128
Well, why wouldn't electricity try going through all of the paths that are available to it?
I remember we used to unplug every fucking thing connected to the phone or power lines (we took this very seriously after we got the living room's TV set and VCR fried once).

>>55635608
yeah
about 15 years ago, when I had a PowerMac G4 733 MHz (a beast) and it was still dial-up internet connection and I was still using my internal modem, a lightning hit the telephone line.
The computer was rip'd. The modem module literally exploded.

>storm
>a lighting bolt strikes near the street
>nothing happens, my devices are ok
>dad yells the tv got fucked, so as our modem and other shit downstairs

got lucky albeit no internet for a week

>>55635608
yes, i lost a modem a few years ago.

Yep, cable modem and computer power supply. Rest of pc was fine though

>>55635608

Yes. Had things plugged into smaller UPSs (<1000w units).

Lightning hit the transformer outside my place.. The power surge hit the UPS, which managed to zap a 4-port switch I had connected, from there it went up network cables to my Xbox 360, which in turn zapped the TV through the HDMI cable. Another network cable went up and zapped my other switch and router (cisco lab gear, a 2421 switch and 2601 router, plus PIX 520 FW). Yes, this was a few years back.

Also my phone was plugged in and charging - I was talking to my GF on my headset. The phone sparked and the call dropped. If I'd had it next to my face I might have been electrocuted. As it was, it was just expensive and annoying.

>>55635608
just once, an USB phone charger desu smbaka

yeah, a winmodem. good riddance.

>>55637507
>If I'd had it next to my face I might have been electrocuted.

You wouldn't have. Your body is a high impedance path, especially to DC, your phone was grounded through the cord which is a low impedance path. Almost all current would have been shunted through the phone cable to ground and you probably would have only taken a few micro-amps of current, not even close to fatal. The sparking likely came from voltage sensitive devices like MOSFETs blowing up when their gate voltage was exceeded.

>>55637507
>Yes. Had things plugged into smaller UPSs (<1000w units).
Aren't UPSs supposed to double as surge protectors?

>>55635653
>>55635645
>>55635642
Those don't help if lightning directly strikes your house

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>>55635608
Lost a HDD and a cable box once.

I have a lightning rod, a surge protector rated to 60K joules on my breaker, and my UPS has a surge protector built in that is rated to 5K joules.
I have not and I'm not really worried about it.

Had a storm cycle the power at my house and kill my shity asrock board (i5 2500k was fine) but i guess thats what i get for buying asrock

>>55635608
Had a client with a distribution depot just out of the city. His offices were below a ridge on top of which was his 2-way radio tower.
Then he took down the tower and the tallest thing on the ridge was the incoming electricity pole-route.
Shazam! With no 2-way tower to protect it the pole-route took the hit(s).
Every EMI filter in the place was destroyed. Took us days to get his minicomputer and all its terminals and printers back to working state.

Our company puts up video cameras and shit.

Anyway, one of our camera poles at a trainyard got struck by lightning and everything got fucked, all the cameras and wireless radios (each $1000+ a pop) got roasted even though they were on surge protectors (guess they don't cover tens of thousands of watts of surge, only hundreds)

Anyway the warranties on the devices don't cover electrical damage. Fun times.

Working at a computer repair shop, a guy brought in a Dell laptop with a fried daughter board due to a recent lightning strike on his house. We get parts straight from Dell, but they wouldn't replace his board even though it was under the good warranty. Going back and forth with them, they eventually labeled it an "act of God" and would go no further.

More recently, big lightning strike took out my dad's graphics card and one HDMI port on our TV. They were both surge protected, but the cable running between then went all the way around the room and induced a spike from the proximity of the lightning.

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>>55635608
Friend had me over to check out her pc after a storm came through because it wouldn't turn on. Checked things out and upon opening it found the LAN port had been Fucking cooked. I'm talking scorched earth mother fucker.

>>55635742

i hate That's fucked now!

Like a month after I built my first computer a huge thunderstorm came by, the computer was fine because surge protector, but in one thunder my ethernet cable fried one of my ports.

I blame it on the cable being plus 30 meters long and long chunks of it being exposed to the elements.

>>55642627
>they eventually labeled it an "act of God" and would go no further.
Look up the "Fusion" clause in your home insurance policy (contents).
Lightning etc is covered.

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>>55635608
I Have everything plugged in through a surge protector/power strips so No I haven't had anything fryed

>>55635608

my friend's ps2 blew when a lightning struck somewhere nearby my house. the laser burned a game disc and the whole thing never put out any video signal again (surprisingly, sound still came out).

sold it on ebay for almost full price (it was shortly after release of the ps2)

>>55639492
If lightning strikes my house my tech will probably be the last thing i will care about. Because i will be dead.

It would probably hit the water tower a couple blocks away though instead of my shit.

>>55644087
How would lightning striking your house kill you? Half the time people don't even die when directly struck.

>>55637128
EVERYONE who understands that cables run on ELECTRICITY?!

Fucking /g/

>>55643980
All you had to do was replace the disk drive...

Closest I've had was a blackout corrupting my San Andreas save file. Was pretty pissed about it as I had just 100% the game.

>>55644087
you sure would buddy :^)

>>55635621
>>55635642
>>55635645
>>55635653
Surge Protectors only work if all your outlets are grounded though especially the room where you placed your surge protector

>>55642486
Well, you are dealing with a few seconds of heat on the level of the surface of the Sun.

>not having at least a line-interactive UPS

it's like you just want all your electronics to get fucked up.

>>55635686
I remember that thing being the tits when it came out.

>>55646248
components*

No

Surge protectors and I unintentionally follow all the safety precautions for storms anyway i.e. I don't go outside and I don't go near windows

a huge thunder strike killed the power in our street, a few days later my GPU failed catastrophically.

its probably just coincidence, but still.

>>55635608
Yeah our house was struck by lightning a few years ago. My room was in the attic and it grilled my psu and my sound setup. It almost hit me, too, it was a bright flash about a meter away from me. Nothing happened though, and insurance covered it all