Thunder, Lightning and your audio system

[Paul R]

Everytime I take excessive precautions to try and protect against lightening strikes, I loose gear. That's just coincidence of course, but it can lead me to wonder sometimes...

 

We also live in Central Texas and get some incredibly vicious thunderstorms come through, usually accompanied by microbursts of pretty incredible intensity that do almost as much damage all by themselves. I have found that I get as much (or as little) damage just by leaving things plugged in and not over worrying about it. If a big enough blast comes down the line, it is going to take out the power units as well as most of the downline equipment too.

 

And there is always the annoying chance of just a monster electrical event happening anyway - lightening has struck close enough to electrify everything, including making every hair on my head stand straight out and produce a scary as hell low frequency hum that vibrated the very air in the house.

 

-Paul