[SunRescue] An intriguing idea...

Paolo Di Francesco paipai at tin.it
Thu Apr 13 09:16:28 CDT 2000


> I have a client who UPSed everything. The dodo forgot to disconnect a phono
> jack from his sound out port to his stereo. Well, when the lightening hit
> his two-way radio antenna on his house and basically charged the electrical
> system in his house to, let say at least 10,000v, it fried the living shit
> out his stereo and his Mac 9500. It litterally blew out a chunk on the
> motherboard where the jack plugged. the inside of the case was all black.

> The moral of the story is that you should make sure everything is either
> unplugged or on an UPS.

Wrong even unplugged you are not sure against lightening...At that 
voltage electricity goes in the air :-)

So if your sun box (or anything else done with metal) is near the plug 
(or anything where the electricity is running) it will go through the 
air. Even you....have you gold stuff on your arm, or you neck? Well it 
could happen (it happened in the past) 




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