- Sep 10, 2015
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Around 12:30 last night, I was just getting getting to sleep when a storm that was arriving soon decided to open the doors with a huge lightning strike next to my house. It hit so hard it set our fire alarms off. I wasn't worried- I had a surge protector BUT: I didn't have another coax cable to connect my cable box through the strip. My TV/monitor at this point was stuck power looping, failing to keep itself on and had no signal. I thought if I let it sit till today, it would be fine. I was wrong. It stayed on longer this morning, but still inevitably got stuck in a power loop. PC is fine, everything connected to the strip is fine, even some of the coax stuff was okay including a 200 dollar router. I don't know if it's because of cheap capacitors, but it doesn't really matter now. I have replaced it (it was my main monitor) with a Vizio 24" TV/Monitor with a HDMI splitter, all hooked up to my surge protector. (Yes, the protected light is on). If you're going to have expensive equipment: put it on a surge protector, the cost of replacement isn't worth it compared to the price of a few cables and a surge protector strip.
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