Probably not. As long as there's a conductor of any sort the strike energy will get passed along somewhere. All you'll be doing is sacrificing a USB-serial adapter and not saving anything.
At my former QTH, out in the country, I was limited to dial-up Internet which meant modems. I lost at least 3 modems to nearby lightning strikes, one of which took the computer motherboard, all on-board Ram, the video card, and one of two hard drives with it. All of that was destroyed by the simple phone line connection. Nothing else in the house was destroyed so the surge didn't come in on the power connection. The lightning strike that did this mayhem was 200 yards away and blew up the maple tree it hit. It also induced a large surge in the phone lines hanging from the pole next to it. On Sun, 01 May 2011 13:19:30 +0200 Pierfrancesco Caci <[email protected]> wrote: > > alternatively, would the use of a usb->232 adapter instead of a direct > rs232 connection help prevent this ? I wouldn't mind zapping a 15 EUR > usb dongle. > > Pf > -- R. Kevin Stover AC0H ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
