John Andersen wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Randall R Schulz
wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2008 10:34, John Andersen wrote:
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Its not unusual for lighting to do truly mind boggling stuff, frying stuff far away while sparing things close. Not all damage is done by the strike itself, some is done by induced currents (lightning is pulsed DC) in long cable runs, and surges FROM (not TO) ground.
I've had ligntning blow the chips completly off a NIC in the server and leave EVERYTHING else in the network running. The same strike fried a motorized pencil sharpener (it started smoking) in the building next door, and harmed nothing else in the building. Mind Boggling.
Out of curiosity, did these things happen in Alaska? I wonder if there might be added phenomena or properties of lightening in areas where geomagnetic and solar effects are sometimes stronger (sometimes much stronger).
Yes, during one of exactly 4 occurrences of Lightning I've ever seen in Juneau in 30 years.
Closely ringed by mountains, Juneau seldom ever gets lightning.
Solar effects happen much higher than lightning if my rudimentry understanding of the atmospheric model does not fail me.
I just lost an ethernet port and several ports of my wired router to a lightning strike on Long Island. Does anybody know where I can get a new (or used, working) Linksys BEFSX41. Everybody wants to sell you an RF router, which I don't want. The Linksys was an excellent firewall, but I think only one poprt is still operative. (This computer seems to have been lucky.) --doug E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (5.5.1.322) Database version: 5.09760e http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org