Timeline for Can lightning strike into the phone line damage electronics in the house through the ADSL modem?
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| Jul 12, 2021 at 16:49 | answer | added | Terri Noland | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackElectronix/status/1281830583824506880 | ||
| Jul 8, 2020 at 8:15 | answer | added | WalterH | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 4, 2020 at 5:02 | comment | added | Russell McMahon♦ | Related: A means to reduce very high energy lightning strike damage that's well documented in various places (no refs to hand) and accepted by many as valid is to add a one or two turn loop in the cable near the entry point, maybe 300mm diameter but not too critical. Having part of the loop against grounded metal is a bonus but not essential. A major lightning strike tends to break out of the cable through the insulation and take a more direct path to ground. Calculations indicate that the impedance of such a loop should be too small to make much difference. Lightning seems not to know this. | |
| S Jul 2, 2020 at 17:09 | history | suggested | LeopardSkinPillBoxHat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2020 at 12:07 | comment | added | Russell McMahon♦ | Related: I have had two multifunction printers-faxes die from a close lightning strike., I assume it came via phone line as no non phone connected equipment has even died. | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 11:52 | answer | added | vu2nan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 9:21 | comment | added | Criticize SE actions means ban | @HotLicks the question was about jumping from the ADSL line to the power line through the WiFi modem, and then possibly damaging other things through the power line | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 22:48 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I once had a lightning strike apparently damage the COM card in a computer, presumably after passing along the phone line and through a circa-1985 modem. But there's no plausible mechanism for lightning to enter the house on a phone line and "jump" from a WiFi modem to WiFi clients. | |
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 20:40 | answer | added | bkb105 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 19:52 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 1, 2020 at 12:35 | answer | added | Neil_UK | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jul 1, 2020 at 12:19 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 11:58 | answer | added | Marcus Müller | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 11:51 | history | asked | adamsfamily | CC BY-SA 4.0 |