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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 04:29 pm (UTC)There's some brand of power strip with surge protector that claims to guarantee $10k of surge protector insurance, as in "we'll replace up to $10k worth of equipment that was damaged if our surge protector doesn't do its job."
IMHO, that might be worth looking into.
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Date: 2002-06-07 07:50 am (UTC)(Sadly, the hub alone isn't the source of our lack of network. We replaced that last night and machines still aren't talking to each other or to the internet. That means some subset of: DSL modem (lights are on), Linksys firewall box (lights are on), and network cards (who can tell?).)