On April 11, 2004 06:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > One caveat, Steve. We had a telephone wire going round the outside of > the house like that. One day we had a thunderstorm, lightning found > the cable, and the whole system (including a mini-switchboard setup) > was fried. > > Anne
My guess, Anne, is that someone either bypass the circuit protection on the telephone lines to run the wiring or it wasn't grounded properly. That should never have happened. I do this for a living and I've run wire around the outside of buildings in climates where thunder and lightening are a dime a dozen and I've yet to have this happen to anything that I've installed. Where I have seen it happen is where either the protection has been bypassed or the ground has been severed. For your own piece of mind get that part of the entrance to your house checked or you might end up with a fire if you get hit by lightening again. ttfn John
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