Solve : Protect your computer in a severe Thunderstorm?

1.	Solve : Protect your computer in a severe Thunderstorm?
Answer» Some places have received warnings of server Thunders tons. To prevent damage to any expensive equipment, you must unplug each device for the durati0on of the storm. Power strips with surge protectors a near worthless in a severe storm if a bolt comes even close to you house. Unless you live underground. Quote The energy of an average 3 mile-long lightning strike is one billion to ten billion joules. To keep a 100-watt light bulb going for one second, one hundred joules of energy will be used. Be careful if you live in an area where serve storms are predicted. Also unplug outdoor TV antennas, cable TV/Internet cables and PHONE lines from equipment. Basically anything that comes in from outside your house.This is why i have considered adding a fiber bridge between broadband modem and router, but due to the cost to do so and improbability of a direct hit, I just haven't and just rely on data redundant practices to not have a single point or location of total data loss. I also have everything powered through UPS as well as the coax is PASSED through a suppressor, although if a direct hit that vaporizes the suppressor, its possible to still burn stuff up further down the line as well as what is a gap of a burned trace that is less than an inch from input to output of the SUPRESSOR when the lightning probably already traveled a few miles to strike, and most lightning bolts are not a single strike, but as many as 30 pulses that are too fast for your eye to count the flashes, and so the first pulse can blow the suppressor vaporizing a trace and the other 29 pulses arc across this 1 inch gap and head down stream to all your equipment. For the most part the hardware can be replaced, but the data is the most important thing to protect. And so data itself should be protected more than the hardware through proper practices of data REDUNDANCY. Since the hardware that is cooked can be replaced with a similar system and access the original data without problems.Quote from: camerongray on December 11, 2014, 05:30:34 AM Also unplug outdoor TV antennas, cable TV/Internet cables and phone lines from equipment. Basically anything that comes in from outside your house. Worth repeating. Many people still have outdoor TV antennas. And the surge devices the phone company has are for their PROTECTION. Not to protect your things. We had a tech come to our house and install a satellite dish and he did not install a grounding device. Wonder where he got his training. For reference: http://www.dbsinstall.com/whatis/Whatisgood-5.asp Grounding for outdoor satellite dish.

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Some places have received warnings of server Thunders tons.

To prevent damage to any expensive equipment, you must unplug each device for the durati0on of the storm.
Power strips with surge protectors a near worthless in a severe storm if a bolt comes even close to you house. Unless you live underground.

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The energy of an average 3 mile-long lightning strike is one billion to ten billion joules. To keep a 100-watt light bulb going for one second, one hundred joules of energy will be used.

Be careful if you live in an area where serve storms are predicted.
Also unplug outdoor TV antennas, cable TV/Internet cables and PHONE lines from equipment. Basically anything that comes in from outside your house.This is why i have considered adding a fiber bridge between broadband modem and router, but due to the cost to do so and improbability of a direct hit, I just haven't and just rely on data redundant practices to not have a single point or location of total data loss. I also have everything powered through UPS as well as the coax is PASSED through a suppressor, although if a direct hit that vaporizes the suppressor, its possible to still burn stuff up further down the line as well as what is a gap of a burned trace that is less than an inch from input to output of the SUPRESSOR when the lightning probably already traveled a few miles to strike, and most lightning bolts are not a single strike, but as many as 30 pulses that are too fast for your eye to count the flashes, and so the first pulse can blow the suppressor vaporizing a trace and the other 29 pulses arc across this 1 inch gap and head down stream to all your equipment.

For the most part the hardware can be replaced, but the data is the most important thing to protect. And so data itself should be protected more than the hardware through proper practices of data REDUNDANCY. Since the hardware that is cooked can be replaced with a similar system and access the original data without problems.Quote from: camerongray on December 11, 2014, 05:30:34 AM

Also unplug outdoor TV antennas, cable TV/Internet cables and phone lines from equipment. Basically anything that comes in from outside your house.

Worth repeating. Many people still have outdoor TV antennas. And the surge devices the phone company has are for their PROTECTION. Not to protect your things. We had a tech come to our house and install a satellite dish and he did not install a grounding device. Wonder where he got his training.
For reference:
http://www.dbsinstall.com/whatis/Whatisgood-5.asp
Grounding for outdoor satellite dish.

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