Have you ever lost electronic equipment to lightning/surges?

[MX2]

If so, what was it?

 

[LethalWolfe]

Just a VCR (nothing else home entertainment wise was turn on). After than I purchased a surge protector and plugged my TV, new VCR, stereo, etc., into it.


Lethal

 

[Zenmervolt]

My family has probably had a half-dozen tuner cards (yes, TVs have replaceable tuner cards) blown out by lightning over the years. Never had it take out the whole TV though. Never had an instance yet where it couldn't be repaired for a tiny fraction of the cost of a new TV.

ZV

 

[Icepick]

Yeah, a PC motherboard. (Pentium 75Mhz). I unplugged the AC power when I heard thunder coming on. The surge must have traveled through the phone line into the modem and arced to the mother board. Too bad I left the phone cable plugged in . It was only a P75 and that was in '98 so it was no great loss.

 

[olds]

I may have lost the mobo in this computer. It fired my RAID array. I tried to reload and it wouldn't see my hdds. I re-set the cmos and it worked. The next day, I woke up to the boot up screen telling me I had no hdds. I re-set the cmos and it works again.
I have a new mobo sitting in the closet for the next time. That reminds me, I better do a back up.

 

[anno]

I lost a hard drive to a power spike in 1991...

 

[Amused]

No.

 

[Queasy]

When I was in college we had just gotten back from winter break and my roommate forgot to bring back the surge protector that his TV and my stereo was hooked up to. Big lightning storm hit. The surge fried the receiver, went through the cord and then fried the sound card in my PC. Luckily the rest of my computer was unaffected.

 

[Koing]

None so far, touch wood.

Koing

 

[ski2slow]

I lost a TV. But repaired under warranty.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: Amused
No.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Yes a Ham radio,that cost me $750.
one 25 inch TV,
3 computers,
an old CB radio,
.Bummer.

 

[eplebnista]

Have you ever lost electronic equipment to lightning/surges?

No

 

[PhlashFoto]

Nope, knock on wood. Watch me post something tomorrow saying " Oh, shizt, my whole setup is fried."

 

[Landroval]

Lost a CD player to a power surge from our beloved Hawaiian Electric

 

[GeekDrew]

I lost three modems (in different computers, and one wasn't even in the same house - within 2 months!) from what was determined to be lightning...
One older-than-stone computer... Cyrix 133 MHz I believe
A few telephones (base stations of cordless phones)

A friend lost two computers, one television, one VCR, and one microwave during a storm... (thankfully, his renter's insurance covered all of it )

Another friend has lost several satellite receivers, several TVs, several switch/routers, a few computers, a microwave, and something else.... an alarm clock maybe? I can't remember exactly.

 

[neutralizer]

Nope, nothing.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

No

 

[Chode Messiah]

asus A78NX-X

 

[Brule]

Within a week of setting up my brand new 166 mhz machine (with MMX technology!) the modem got knocked up by lightning. Since that early, first experience there's been no problems.

poll?

 

[Chode Messiah]

at least urs sucked

 

[skyking]

VCR

 

[VTHodge]

Lost a TV (replaced the power supply for $125), cable modem (replaced for $50) and a mobo (Dell repaired under warrenty). I had surge protectors, but the spike came through the cable line. Now I have surge protectors that cover phone and cable lines.

 

[frankgomez75]

been lucky here and I've been through some bad storms.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

linksys router, fried half the ports on it (and network cards attached to those ports)