Hi Everyone
Yesterday a summer storm rolled thru my town and at about 2pm my house was "struck" by Lightning.
Toasted everything connected to the TV network, My security cameras, Half my solar panels, my printer, and modem and about 3 network switches. It also managed to kill my xmas lights.
from what I've worked out, the upper story gutter went live and jumped into the PI cable for the outline strip. It destroyed the strip (12m), and the meanwell power supply and pixlite 4 connected to it.
it then ran happily down the cat6 to the switch, blew the lid off it, killed the Raspberry pi, and then proceeded to travel out from the switch to the other pixlite 4 and power supply in the other controller box and to the pixlite 16 and power supply in the mega tree.
I've ordered some new controllers from Advatek, who are express shipping them for me ( thanks Luke) and some new power supplies from Meanwell, I'm not giving up just yet ( I was hoping to make the Judging for the xmas lights comp lol) Until the new controllers and power supplies arrive, I do not know the status of my other pix strips and megatree nodes. Hopefully they are still a goer.
i've attached some photos.
As a learning exercise I wonder if running the power injection cable, or any cable for that matter in, near or across gutters is a good idea?
and obviously I now think disconnecting the cables from the switch is a good idea to prevent the propagation of any nasty electrons.
I think it would be smart to sectionalise your displays so that the impact of any "event" can be limited
I also think it would be a wise move to not connect your household network or computer to the show network. Luckily Mine wasn't, it got into my home network through a tv that was connected to the NVR which was connected to the house network. When you stop and think about it there is a lot of interconnectivity between the TV systems and network devices. I'm also thinking of installing some cheap switches in my network as sacrificial fuses for next time. My Billion ADSL modem, made the sacrifice and protected my computer. ( yet another reason to like Billion devices)
But for all my anguish, it's only lights. the house didn't burn down, and no one was hurt. and it's nothing compared to the storm that hit Kurnell.
the best point is that my Virtual Santa is still going, Lightning won't stop Santa!
Cheers
Fing
Yesterday a summer storm rolled thru my town and at about 2pm my house was "struck" by Lightning.
Toasted everything connected to the TV network, My security cameras, Half my solar panels, my printer, and modem and about 3 network switches. It also managed to kill my xmas lights.
from what I've worked out, the upper story gutter went live and jumped into the PI cable for the outline strip. It destroyed the strip (12m), and the meanwell power supply and pixlite 4 connected to it.
it then ran happily down the cat6 to the switch, blew the lid off it, killed the Raspberry pi, and then proceeded to travel out from the switch to the other pixlite 4 and power supply in the other controller box and to the pixlite 16 and power supply in the mega tree.
I've ordered some new controllers from Advatek, who are express shipping them for me ( thanks Luke) and some new power supplies from Meanwell, I'm not giving up just yet ( I was hoping to make the Judging for the xmas lights comp lol) Until the new controllers and power supplies arrive, I do not know the status of my other pix strips and megatree nodes. Hopefully they are still a goer.
i've attached some photos.
As a learning exercise I wonder if running the power injection cable, or any cable for that matter in, near or across gutters is a good idea?
and obviously I now think disconnecting the cables from the switch is a good idea to prevent the propagation of any nasty electrons.
I think it would be smart to sectionalise your displays so that the impact of any "event" can be limited
I also think it would be a wise move to not connect your household network or computer to the show network. Luckily Mine wasn't, it got into my home network through a tv that was connected to the NVR which was connected to the house network. When you stop and think about it there is a lot of interconnectivity between the TV systems and network devices. I'm also thinking of installing some cheap switches in my network as sacrificial fuses for next time. My Billion ADSL modem, made the sacrifice and protected my computer. ( yet another reason to like Billion devices)
But for all my anguish, it's only lights. the house didn't burn down, and no one was hurt. and it's nothing compared to the storm that hit Kurnell.
the best point is that my Virtual Santa is still going, Lightning won't stop Santa!
Cheers
Fing
