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[ale] 30" LCD monitor locally
On 11/21/2010 05:33 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I've had weekends like that. After Lightning hit at tree 6 feet away
> from my home office/shop, I wound up replacing all electronics over
> then next 2 weeks. EMP from a near hit like that can make a few
> thousand volts appear across network connections. For some reason,
> probably physics related, most computer gear doesn't like 2kV incoming
> over the ethernet ports.
My wife reminded me that we had a power hit just before this happened.
On the other side that foils my plans of tapping into one of the high
tension lines near my house.