david wrote: > Not much protects against lightning. Even unplugging from the mains > might not - lightning is powerful enough to jump across insulator gaps. > Very true, David. I don't know of *anything* that will stop lightning directly. I work in the insurance industry (in Central United States) and take initial claim reports. Just took one today where a lightning strike nearby took out a policyholder's Central Air Conditioning system. My first suggestion to the insured was to check his furnace and everything else that is powered by electricity in his home, including things that were not plugged in at the time of the electrical storm. While we were talking about his next steps to recover from this event, his wife called out that (sure enough) the furnace was not coming on. Dave, if you're still following this thread, be sure to check everything in the home that is electric powered. If you wait till the fall to turn on your furnace and find out it doesn't work, your insurance company may think it's a separate claim and charge you a second deductible. Best, Stephen. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
