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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1810998" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>The biggest risk to household electronics are cordless telephones. The charging piece where the telephone cord is plugged into also plugs into the household power. Lightening spikes travel up the phone line through the charging station and try to earth out through the neutral wire which is bonded to the earth in the switchboard. It takes out electronic equiptment also plugged into the power along the way. I know from experience, I lost my inverter when I first moved up here. I still have the char marks on the wall where the telephone cord became ash from that lightening strike where it ran down to the charging station. Even without a phone plugged in I would get multiple blue flashes coming out of my phone plug and get the smell of those old flashlight bulbs. I ended up cutting the phone line once my mobile reception became reliable here. Phone lines around here seem to be a magnet for lightening.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1810998, member: 16453"] The biggest risk to household electronics are cordless telephones. The charging piece where the telephone cord is plugged into also plugs into the household power. Lightening spikes travel up the phone line through the charging station and try to earth out through the neutral wire which is bonded to the earth in the switchboard. It takes out electronic equiptment also plugged into the power along the way. I know from experience, I lost my inverter when I first moved up here. I still have the char marks on the wall where the telephone cord became ash from that lightening strike where it ran down to the charging station. Even without a phone plugged in I would get multiple blue flashes coming out of my phone plug and get the smell of those old flashlight bulbs. I ended up cutting the phone line once my mobile reception became reliable here. Phone lines around here seem to be a magnet for lightening. Ken [/QUOTE]
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