Timeline for Can lightning strike into the phone line damage electronics in the house through the ADSL modem?
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| Jul 12, 2020 at 13:00 | comment | added | adamsfamily | I understand, so even if lightning hits a power line pole that also carries cable TV and phone line wires, it would eventually toast the ADSL modem but the surge through the power adapter of the ADSL model should not harm anything else in the house, am I right? | |
| Jul 2, 2020 at 20:18 | comment | added | computercarguy | I was also a computer repair tech that saw various internal modems that were "directly" hit by lightening and usually the computer itself was left undamaged as far as I could tell. I've seen not only damaged components, but traces that were vaporized, chips that literally blew up, and even holes burned completely through the cards themselves. | |
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| Jul 1, 2020 at 20:40 | history | answered | bkb105 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |