Were the line cards designed with sufficient protection for off-premise extensions? If so that might be why the damage was limited to the line card.

3 Compaq, 3 Hewlett Packard, 1 MicroVax, 1 JCB and one hole in the road. The MicroVax took its usual 15 minutes to reboot. The 3 Compaqs - "What power disruption ?" 2 HPs - rebooted The file server - the last HP took much less than the statutory 5 seconds to self destruct. The 2 big chips in the PSU were now chips with craters in the centre of them. PSU from another machine used....Of the 640kb base memory - counted only just over 300 - so the hard drive was migrated to another computer - which didn't recognise it as a hard drive - or anything else for that matter. The data on the disc may have been ok but we'd got it all backed up in any case - so the whole HP went in the skip.

@@millomweb And what about the JCB? Was it a 3CII - because those are darn "indestructible" aside from a pretty typical British engine compartment solution.

Our Avaya Pabx is protected by Krone lightning arrestors. I still don't trust them enough to feel safe in a storm.

had a 3com line card once with a similar issue, ended up importing one from Holland! Had a bit scorch mark up the front of the unit. Rare then, wouldn't want to try and get one now.

You can tell this is an aspen tree because of the way it is

Like a good scotch?

@@ehsnils Like cancer.

My German electrician friend calls it smells like current.

Also seems to have an explosive disconnect feature XD

surprised it didn't blow the whole top off, leaving the plate and prongs connected live

That’s kind of the beauty of cheap USB plugs like this; the tolerances around the USB socket are probably Sufficiently Shit(TM) that the gap around it provided enough of an escape route for the explosive pressure. Blew the cable out, too, didn’t it? They could market that as a design feature; ‘Protects your electronics by automatically disconnecting them from the adapter should a fault occur.’ 😁

@@throttlebottle5906 that couldn't happen eu plug prongs are designed not to do that

@@andrewbyers1555 yeah and jet's are designed not to have failures, power grids are designed to be resilient and not have blackouts. it only gets better as the products become more chintzy...

You will probably want to replace your other surge protectors if you haven't already - the MOVs in them are essentially consumable, and for reasons unknown to me, not all surge strips cut the power when their protection is exhausted.

check if you can install fortnite now :D

@@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637 well I don't think it's jailbroken I think it's just broken now in other words probably not going to work probably that poured if you could install software by that direction would not work either probably the lightning port that got struck by lightning became a firewire port and then became Thunderbolt when the power supply exploded so maybe the upgrade would allow you to install fortnite?????? Although it probably still run Thor god of thunder. Although it's probably be in it downgrade to a dumb phone more like down to the done attack phone AKA The Brick. Just checked yep it's a dynatek now it's bricked. You probably could have laid it out of cement and water and you wouldn't even need a Kilmer oven to turn it into a break all you need is a jolt from the blule.

@@rpavlik1 oh yeah totally great for placing its Earth protectors I did that when I had two different lightning strikes both times also upgrade him to something more useful or Outlets better protection more ports ethernet and coax and additional USB ports than before. excetera.

@@aaronbrandenburg2441 do you really have the patience to write all that stuff? ... anyways i didn't realise how many communication ports have a name referencing to thunders and similars

Hell, it could be straight up life advice.

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@@nathanaelsmith3553 .. lol i was thinking of Metallica ride the lightening

Circuit designer: the path to earth Lightning: *the* path to earth? Hold my beer...

I knew that was coming up sooner or later on this video comments.

Hmm, for us, back in the 1970s - central heating pump jammed and burnt out. I'd guess about 8:45 am.

victory

Is this the start of the 2020 Big Clive home scent collection?

I'm disappointed that he hasn't given us a tour of his house and shown this to us along with all the other evidence of his KZfaq shenanigans.

It's particularly impressive considering he set it off in his garden!

James Staples Not that one! That was a pyro. The lightning arrestor he stuck in a machine vise on his bench and put mains across. It blew the vise halfway out of frame, no surprise there are still bits in the ceiling. Poor bear, he's lucky he didn't get a new piercing to go with the ringing in his ears...

lexie was still the same video

@M Harris Well, the one on The Isle Of Man is where this bench is and where most of his regular content is filmed.

British ISP? I wouldn't expect them to be any better than that.

@@userPrehistoricman You are close, but I live across the channel... But its the same issue over here apparently. When my sister wanted a new connection in her apartment, it took her 2 months of 4 calls a week to their service desk before she had a connection. After just 1 day it was broken already... She then called the more expensive rival ISP, they got her a working connection in 3 days. She tried calling her crappy ISP to cancel her plan as it didn't work, but she was placed on a wait/hold line of more than an hour... She hung up and just canceled her monthly payments. Three months later she got a call of the crappy ISP, threatening to shut of her internet if she didn't pay her bills. She told them to f-off, as their service didn't work more than 24 hours in the past 3 months, that it took her 2 months of 3 to 4 times a week of calling to become a new customer, and that she is now a happy customer with their rival ISP... Most people I know also hate this ISP, they advertise 100mbps and deliver 25mbps in 90% of the country. I had the same slow 25mbps in the past, when I called their service desk they always used the excuses that I live to far from their substation, so they can't deliver anything faster. One day I got a new neighbor who was a manager at that ISP, he called some people and got it fixed in like 2 days. Having 90mbps since that day. Not to say that the more expensive rival ISP advertises 300mbps and actually delivers 280mbps without having to know people on the inside... I literally don't understand how this crappy ISP keeps surviving...

Most of the magic smoke appears to have been held back and condensed inside. So all it needs is a drop of ionic silver solution and recombination will occur, rejuvenating the unit back into working condition. (I didn't get where I am today ... etc.)

The blast expelled the cable from the port thankfully!

Transformers have to be rated to survive several kV to be sold in Europe. I imagine the primary side electronics blew up and shorted way before the critical voltage of the transformer was reached, so it's not surprising that the secondary side received no high voltage.

Sounds like the mains side part of good quality PC power supplies as well, then you check the crappier no-names and they have all those upopulated footprints on the board...

@Joachim Shekelberg Agreed, it was the second level which caused me to say it was impressive. The spark gap to an unearthed chassis was less impressive.

I'm amazed it hasn't drawn blood yet.

A number of videos ago, the spudger was quite noticeably damaged while Clive was attempting to pry something open with it. :-O

Honestly I was hoping for The Vise of Knowledge but then again, I always hope for The Vise of Knowledge to show up. Something about watching things get delicately crushed open. Similar to The Magic Pliers.

oh i miss the days of laughing at electronic apocalypses. Now it's just "Yep, that's exactly post-nuclear"

"Chinese fireworks display" I've come to call that event. I don't think I've ever seen one caused by lightning though.

You are a time traveler

That was the chineium getting out as well as the magic smoke XD Also..."ass blown out"? Sounds like a prolaps to me XD and the inside of the thing is how ur brain will be after seeing one LMAO X3

@@TECHnoman753 Chinesium IS known to be highly flammable...

I've been watching long enough to remember when Clive installed that surface. It was so clean, and now it's got little skidmarks. :D

Once saw a tree that had been used for a light pole yard lights that is get struck by lightning strip the bark and Harley all the way around the top it's free had been long since cut and took out the electric fence are Geyser in the shop and even blow some light bulbs old school incandescent took out the phone system blew up the VCR is that one the TV still work the other one did not. The old TV antenna and antenna booster we're okay but the input wiring Florida's fine however the output from the booster was vaporized in two or three places where it was next to metal conduit Ark / evidently. Blue a timer off the wall. Blue all the photo controls for any lighting welded a couple Indian position blue one apart. Someone was in The Barn at the time she felt the shock through his shoes he said that was all the cows in the barn jump straight up simultaneously. And then shortly after he heard a bang after the storm got worse lightning had struck the central lightning rod on the barn vaporized for the copper rooster weathervane. What are the directional indicator arms was blown off and was impaled in a tree stump crack. There was also a third lightning strike in the same storm it took out the pump controller 4 the well Justin controller not pump. Due to lightning protection beyond the pump which stamping blew up in a process but did protect pump. And a battery charger that was flooded in but not connected to anything the voltage was quite different than before it happened. And also there's one more lightning strike although it was probably off property and I can't remember that took out the phones of three Farms total. So lightning wins with a homerun I guess. At least in that case maybe more. That home run.

I saw old black and white TV set shatter when lightning struck our house wiring. CRT literally exploded and showered us with glass but TV itself surprisingly didn't catch fire and house breakers tripped safely. We had really old wiring in 1920s style, main cables in textile and paper insulation with screw-in, "percussion cap" breakers. It was real fun to wire in anything new...

As I recall the Ethernet standard requires 1500V of isolation between the coax and the rest of the machine. Same is true for twisted pair. Probably why only the Ethernet transceiver was damaged.

@@brianleeper5737 I had forgotten that figure was so high, obviously designed to protect against mains on the network cables.

Yup. Still, considering that it took a hit from a lightning strike (if only secondhand through the house wiring) it took it quite well.

Must *have

You learned it the hard way, i might've blew up some capacitors and resistors, some chips but never in my life i blew up a transformer

@@hassankhurramtech well the transformer shorted internally between primary and secondary, so it turned itself into a large ignition coil with the might of the national grid to fuel the it :)

@@Asdayasman yep thanks for the grammar check ;)

Lol

Actually in one of devices that someone was talking about laptop with the USB C Port not working after a surge David actually fix it you'd be surprised at how many things are actually a non repair and you actually just need to turn on and off and back on again if it don't turn it off and back on again

Put it in rice!

Bs1363 fuses are not very fast, a spike with blow the semiconductors to smeg long before the fuse pops.

Suggested videos here Mister bun buns tragic Easter big Clive I don't know the name of this video maybe someone could help me out I'd like to see it again but can't remember it sorry please comment on this. But the one where he's fixing the lamp and the lamp goes bang showering Sparks everywhere Grand Kinder Surprise egg pyro Style. And of course plenty of his others he should have a playlist of the the greatest bangs also playlist of win the explosion containment pie dish may have actually served its intended purpose in other words Electronics going nuclear when he's working on them Etc Owen don't forget about things floating whatever videos open clock save and yes all that's big Clive stuff so there you go. Check it out.

I'm really curious now what this flamethrower toy doll thing video is now...

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If the fuse blew ?????? Can't have been that bad if the fuse was still there :) Different matter when you go into the room and start breathing fuse vapour !

Well so did I kind of but had a feeling no.

@@aaronbrandenburg2441 I thought: "They can't be that different, what is he gonna show?" 😅

zh84 look up on google. Shut the power and give it a try. It’s a good skill to have.

Wonder if you could use a broken key extractor to remove the broken earth pin?

The usual way that 7-12kV gets into the secondary side of the transformer is that the primary line breaks and falls down and makes contact with the secondary line. It's interesting to note that some power companies (maybe most?) arrange the secondary lines so that the grounded neutral is on top and the two 120V hot legs are below it. Therefore a broken primary line is more likely to make contact with the grounded neutral and trip out. Others arrange the secondary lines so that one 120V hot leg is in top, then the grounded neutral is in the middle, and the other 120V hot leg is on the bottom. This arrangement seems more likely to result in a broken primary line applying primary voltage to one of the 120V legs.

@@brianleeper5737 Certainly possible that it broke one of the main high tension phases when it hit the transformer, but I really only remember seeing the feeders glow red and come down after the transformer was struck. The other route would have been flashover in the transformer itself since it took a direct hit. Either way, it was impressive. Fortunately all the electronics they had at the time were based on vacuum tubes so everything survived, but the TV was never quite right afterwards.

The breakers often trip before the fuses blow. It results in less of a bang than with the old fuseboxes.

It's the magic smoke that makes it work and when it is scapes it doesn't work anymore as they say.

Years ago I had this monitor that had a bright blue power LED. It would blink when the monitor was asleep. At night it looked like the cops had someone pulled over.

@@brianleeper5737 The blue LED in my modem wasn't very bright (all SiC blue LEDs were noteably dim) so it didn't bother me in the least. But in more recent times, I've had home electronics with blue LEDs that were disturbingly bright -- so much so that I have to cover them so that I could sleep at night. :-(

I think one of the materials they use for some types of surge protectors may be related to silicon carbide it may even be one of those materials so maybe be led acted like a surge protector and protected itself who knows seriously but IC worse happening still had stuff work enough to salvage things out of them don't know how but it does happen weird huh. Speaking of surf protection I remember my grandparents told me one time they had probably a black and white TV at the time 2 most likely definitely if you know I'm saying. At that house I don't remember where or when excetera they had an outdoor TV antenna AKA Ariel with two twin lead cables come in the TV set was unplugged from the wall outlet cord and plug of rain waiting on the carpet and or rug don't know which. But the TV antenna was still connected by the twin lead cable to the outdoor antenna on the roof or on a tower or something like that not one in the Attic or under a porch or in the basement excetera. The antenna got struck by lightning don't know if the Tower or antenna and all was probably grounded or not or even if it was at all who knows. I don't know if a proper antenna lightning static arrest or whatever you want to call it stag dissipator I don't know if anything like that was installed prior to it coming in the house this one lead-lined that is. Like it should have been. But the the TV can't remember the whole story on it there's mixed opinions if it works door not but kind of doubt it but it was so long ago they probably couldn't remember and then that was many many years ago when I found out about this to so long time ago for sure probably over 30 years probably more than that. Probably before I was born I'd say? But anyways when lightning struck the antenna the lightning had actually talked over the end of the exposed prongs of the plug that was laying on the carpet or rug implant the carpet or rug which is just strange. Not the first time there's been lightning strikes in that household. My grandmother was indirectly struck by lightning it hit the house came through the electrical system and jump from the refrigerator housing to her. Also it don't take lightning to generate high voltage during storms you can happen because of the electrical Fields as well that's why sometimes you get Saint Elmo's Fire on high points like Steeples and stuff like that sayings sometimes see the lightning rods with y'all have seen in the country one time at the old church we were there before storm it was nighttime can't remember what we're doing but my dad work for the church. It was right before a bad storm and we could see lightning in the distance of stuff I looked up I said Dad look up at the roof and there are other objects in the area that have blue brush discharge AKA Saint Elmo's Fire and I said to my dad do you see that and he said yes I said Dad that's saying it was funner does the atmosphere is high or low tide right now I think we better get in and he said yes let's do it soon after really bad thunderstorm we think lightning might have struck as well power went out for a bit and the way it sounded it just reverberated to the entire building the only time I've done that before was one of the building have been struck by lightning according to others somebody suggested might have come into the bell tower possibly Because there was some mechanical equipment and such up there that would make good Metallica Target as well as the coursers lightning rods as well and they said that had our covert other things before By the way something interesting ones One time we actually one of going up there because of something with the mechanical systems. In terms of h v a c in terms of the V part of it ventilation that is. There was a very large old probably original? Likely was. Super-sized exhaust fan squirrel cage blower probably was 4 ft + tall if not more. And when we have to be in an area as well as their yours we could hear bump bump bump bump. At regular intervals I said there's something going on with it. So you got the keys to the bell tower we went up there and realize something by the way this still have a leather belt and pulleys on the blower and the motor almost like what you would have online shaft back in the day or farm equipment. Turns out brand new belt hadn't broken in yet where this place was and every time the Spicewood hit when the police it made the sound. also they had Trace Heating and all the gutters and also portals on the roof evidently for melting ice and snow to keep the gutter from freezing off as well they went through the gutters is wrong turns out all the illogical all that for the whole building was up in the bell tower ran everywhere else from there even though where the utilities came in just off the Boiler Room in the electrical room was absolutely as far as you can go across from that way the long way. speaking of that the organ blower was also in there for the pipe which originally must have had the same type of drawing live what's the belt because the belt cage AK bolt guard motor mounts are still there except I think also the original Polly was on there can't remember at least on the blower end of things. but Heckman converted to direct drive off a large motor and at that time they were still on single phase power as well believe it or not. later on when they did the new construction it was switched over to three phase. Also you should have seen the old exhaust system in the old kitchen largest blower motor I'd ever seen and also the fuse switch for that was just scary looking it had two handles one is a switch any other to open a door which contain the fuse holders And when you pulled that it would also interrupted the power as well. Talk about redundancy I've only seen one Cut out like that before and that was it was that one. also I remember once on the Christmas Pageant rehearsal one year we had a few problems elvenar got stuck between floors basically we had to power cycle it like 4 times would not reset. by the way that was when the elevator was brand new. also I told my father of course I was there when we are doing there in the elevator. Hydraulic / mechanical room machine room for Or motor room whatever you want to say it is. Of course he had the keys to that. For emergencies. Which that had happened numerous times when is first installed. I said to my father did I think we should probably grab the one that dropped Keys just in case we need it and have to open the doors manually. and yes this is still along the lines of this enter the lightning. We did have Thunderstone know that night. but we don't know if that was coincidence or not with the issue with the elevator most likely not but who knows. but my dad knew that I knew how to use the drop key to open the doors manually the L Vortec there had taught me how to do that for emergencies she thought it'd be a good idea to know that might be present. That would be able to do it and no How to safely do it. And how and when excetera. even I knew how to restart the elevator in a if something went wrong. but yes the two or three people are in there we're okay it was between for us we just kind of help them out there That preferable course I open the doors manually from the outside. But also same night same rehearsal we were only using a thousand watts of extra light in the balcony in addition to the bank spot like we had I think that was also to your we blew the balm in the spotlight and just beforehand? but things are going just mostly okay I guess you could say and then we hit the window lights for stained glass which was part of the plan for the pageant because of the star above stained glass window the stained glass of course. By the way all those were on the same level to switch. Of course multiple circuits. and a few minutes later or so don't remember how long all of a sudden Houston we have a problem. When the lights go out balconies dad some lights in the area and more and the organ blower And no power to the organ Chambers whatsoever. Turns out of course I knew the electrical system of the church like the back of my hand so started checking what panels that would be affected for a trip Breakers in some cases blowing fuses turns out that thing was a mess everything is fine scratching my head then I stopped to go down to the logical room sure Nuff well there's your problem we didn't rip anything else we trip to feed her before anything else had tripped. frankly not surprised by how it have been done over the years attitude changed excetera and never updated or anything like that there was enough load overall even without overloading in any one individual circuit the trip the whole kit and caboodle it'd be like tripping out a subpanel Breakthrough going to a sub panel. By the way there was more than one panel affected I think it was a total of three or four that were knocked out by this. that was the first time evidently it that had ever happened that they had trip to feeder. although when they're doing the new construction specifically demolition they will end up cutting through I cable blue 100-amp feeder. Is that feeder line was not on the blueprints so they wouldn't have been able to know it was there even known it was there but back then they didn't really have the equipment to find things like that easily it was encased in concrete.

@@aaronbrandenburg2441 Strangely enough....the last time I remember anything getting damaged by lighting was probably back in about 1986/87 and it was a Midland portable 13" B&W TV. No place I've lived since then has had anything damaged by lightning. I've had GFCIs trip due to lightning, both at my house and my dad's house. Pass and Seymour brand. Leviton brand seems to not be so sensitive.

1A Green, 2A Blue, 3A Red, 5A Grey, 7A ?? (can't remember), 10A Black, 13A Brown. BS1363 screwed everything up by specifying 3A or 13A and making everything else non standard so now the colours are: 1A black, 2A Black, 3A Red, 5A Black, 7A Black, 10 A Black, 13A Brown. So much for progress. 🤦

Were you listening to "Some Like It Hot?" Because that song seems appropriate.

Short answer: not at an affordable price for most people! There are many commercial companies that offer lightning "protection" systems, but (quite sensibly!) none will guarantee 100% success. Their solutions simply manage the risk.