eva2000
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Still much higher rated than some UPS that are in 300-800 Joules rangeThe small print says "equivalent to 2440 Joules using UL1449 standard". I was going to purchase the same once I noticed it so I went on a UPS
Still much higher rated than some UPS that are in 300-800 Joules rangeThe small print says "equivalent to 2440 Joules using UL1449 standard". I was going to purchase the same once I noticed it so I went on a UPS
I'm not sure if there will be a video to accompany the upcoming HYS post, there's a lot of work to be done getting the house back to some semblance of working order.
It's important that you and your loved ones are well. The rest matters little or not at all.Thankfully my workstation and home servers were connected to the 10GbE switch and survived.
Kier, the UK Wiring regulations actually recommend surge protection at the incoming supply to your home now (consumer unit).So I had a lightning strike on or very near to my house today. Following an ear-splitting bang, all the power went off and there was a smell of smoke from the data cupboard under the stairs.
One or both of the ethernet switches had gone bang in a big way, with some of the connected patch cables badly fried.
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Pretty much anything that was connected directly to the 24 port switch also died, including the living room TV, every Apple TV 4K box in the house, two stereo amplifiers... I'm actually still building a complete list of all the destroyed equipment. Thankfully my workstation and home servers were connected to the 10GbE switch and survived.
I'm not sure if there will be a video to accompany the upcoming HYS post, there's a lot of work to be done getting the house back to some semblance of working order.
That really sucks, sorry to hear.The gear in my office is on a big APC UPS, as is the main network gear including the core switches and the internet router, which have their own UPS.
However, it would appear that the UPS for the networking gear didn't save the equipment, as a picture is beginning to emerge of a massive power surge going through that UPS somehow and hitting the (blue) 24 port Netgear switch, which promptly blew up and in the process delivered electronics-killing spikes to all the connected devices. Even some of the office equipment that I initially had thought survived was simply masking the problem by switching to their wifi connections.
Still waiting for a call back from the insurers' 'storm specialists'.
HmmmThe gear in my office is on a big APC UPS, as is the main network gear including the core switches and the internet router, which have their own UPS.
However, it would appear that the UPS for the networking gear didn't save the equipment, as a picture is beginning to emerge of a massive power surge going through that UPS somehow and hitting the (blue) 24 port Netgear switch, which promptly blew up and in the process delivered electronics-killing spikes to all the connected devices. Even some of the office equipment that I initially had thought survived was simply masking the problem by switching to their wifi connections.
Still waiting for a call back from the insurers' 'storm specialists'.
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