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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.

Post Subject: Yes, for sure it is puzzleing.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 2/4/2014

Well, I do not know if it was lightning but what else would it be. I did blame Amy with her hair and her curly machine and I did blame out little Koshkas for running around house like crazy and generating static perhaps. I even blamed the cleaning lady for wiping the dust too aggressively and not attaching a ground wire to her leg. The reality is that something had happened. I think it was lightning. It did not strike antenna over the roof, if it did the tuner’s input stage would do auf wiedersehen. So, I think it was some kind of lightning that most likely hit the roof or the trees near the house and then made own way to different power line in house. Well, whatever it was thee is anywhere no way to be protected from it. I would not put the Faraday cage around the house, would I? The fuse that burled in Shwarz was 0.15A, I do not know where it sits in the circuit but the low value of it does look conspicuous. I do not think that it protects input stage; no fuse will be able to react to lightning. There are some military lightning fuses but they work at very different principle and would be have cost/size more than the tuner itself.

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