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strange one.....lightening!

  • 10-08-2014 12:57pm
    #1
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭


    Very hot here in southern poland, due to the heat we get massive thunderstorms. Just watching the rangers match on sky sports 1 and there was a massive lightening strike about 1-2kms away. Straight after the lightening no signal on any channel including polish nc+. Then slowly the signal SNR started to increase again and picture came back. The AGC was at 96% all the time!
    Not raining here either, wonder what happened.

    It took about 2 minutes for SNR to get back to its usual 93%


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  • #2
    amdaley28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭amdaley28


    You were lucky.
    I would say a transformer somewhere took a strike.
    I would suggest that you use surge protectors on your electronics.


  • #3
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    everything is protected by surge protectors. We also have a cell phone mast 50m from our house and about 50m higher than our house. Since that has been put up, that takes all the local strikes.

    Electric wasn't affected by this strike, just satellite signal across the board.


  • #4
    Mallagio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭Mallagio


    Her Father's house took a bang from lightening and he needed a new lnb there last year.

    Smoke and all was coming out of the lnb lol


  • #5
    amdaley28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭amdaley28


    Mallagio wrote: »
    Her Father's house took a bang from lightening and he needed a new lnb there last year.

    Smoke and all was coming out of the lnb lol

    Lucky it wasn't smoke coming out of the house :eek:


  • #6
    denis1501
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭denis1501


    I've lost a few satellite receivers here in Italy over the years due to lightening strikes. Most have been burned by the fact that the dish was hit and the electricity travelled down through the cables and into the receiver. So now whenever there's electrical activity in the area the cables are unscrewed from the back of the receiver.
    And whether you have surge protectors or not, plug everything out from the mains until the storms pass!


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