Re: Surge / Ground / Lightning

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>, w_tom1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On May 3, 4:38=A0am, Franc Zabkar <fzab...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Can you elaborate on this by showing us the path taken by the strike
> > through the TV?
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>   Path to earth was through the network and into a third computer.
> Through that third computer's motherboard, through modem, and to earth
> via phone lines.  Semiconductors in these paths were damaged.
>=20
>   We literally traced this path by replacing ICs.  Some ICs (ie
> network interface chips) even had cracks on packages where surge
> current entered or exiting those ICs.  Absolutely no doubt as to how
> surge currents found earth ground, destructively, via adjacent
> computers.
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=09I wonder why, since electrical codes in North America=20
and Britain require a ground connection at each outlet;=20
computer power cords are 3 wire?