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Jun. 6th, 2002 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioArgh.
We returned home last night from D&D to find half the breakers in the upstairs sub-panel tripped. Ok, fine; there was a storm earlier (not a big one). One breaker would not go back on; hmm. After the rest went back on, we found some dead appliances. Oh joy. Power surge or lightning strike; how can we tell which? (No evidence of damage yet in the finished third floor. It's been raining all morning, so we have not attempted an inspection of the roof.)
Dead (so far):
On the death "watch list": one air conditioner (entire outlet is dead; did it get that way by shorting our brand-new AC?), four computers.
The fridge is fine, so we have food rather than yucky smells. We have not inspected stereo equipment, computers (beyond cursory glances), and peripherals (scanner, printers, etc) yet. We have also not investigated other kitchen appliances, remaining air conditioners, furnaces, and assorted small gadgets.
I hope an electrician can see us today; I don't know what I can and can't trust.
We returned home last night from D&D to find half the breakers in the upstairs sub-panel tripped. Ok, fine; there was a storm earlier (not a big one). One breaker would not go back on; hmm. After the rest went back on, we found some dead appliances. Oh joy. Power surge or lightning strike; how can we tell which? (No evidence of damage yet in the finished third floor. It's been raining all morning, so we have not attempted an inspection of the roof.)
Dead (so far):
- One VCR and TV; they and one other VCR were plugged into the same power strip ("with surge protection"); one VCR survived. Say what?
- One hub, but not the DSL modem and Linksys box upstream or (apparently) the computers downstream.
- One monitor (plugged into UPS!) -- or perhaps one graphics card; will do swaps later to determine.
- One microwave (has power, but display is dead).
- One alarm clock (clock works, but alarm does not; guess how we found out).
On the death "watch list": one air conditioner (entire outlet is dead; did it get that way by shorting our brand-new AC?), four computers.
The fridge is fine, so we have food rather than yucky smells. We have not inspected stereo equipment, computers (beyond cursory glances), and peripherals (scanner, printers, etc) yet. We have also not investigated other kitchen appliances, remaining air conditioners, furnaces, and assorted small gadgets.
I hope an electrician can see us today; I don't know what I can and can't trust.
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Date: 2002-06-06 11:12 am (UTC)True.
I hope that no further stuff went wrong and that it's just the graphics card on your monitor (you know, the cheap fix).
Actually, given that we will almost certainly meet the deductible on the policy and thus make an insurance claim, I hope it's the monitor. I will feel much more confident with a replacement monitor; if it's the card, I will always wonder what else in the machine got zapped but will have delayed effects. I don't know enough about hardware to spot a problem before a fan or a hard drive or a sound card or whatever dies.
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Date: 2002-06-07 07:54 am (UTC)Our electrician recommended that we replace everything associated with the two computers that got zapped, and he thinks that's normal for insurance these days. I wonder how quickly we can get the adjustor to approve that. I want to be back online, dammit. And this isn't a case of my own stupidity nailing me; I did eveyrthing right -- UPS, intelligent distribution of power outlets/circuits, GFIs, etc.