Power conditioners Snake oil?

[murugan19]

And when I received a direct lightning strike in the summer of 1997, I became very serious about becoming very informed about mitigating all destructive surges & spikes, both in power line and signal conductors that might be man made, or lightning created.

When I received my house`s lightning strike in 1997, I was using a dedicated (separate from the original land line) dialup land line feeding my expensive because of the high amount of memory for that era

Food for thought (for everyone - I'm not singling Bill Ferris out):
Lightning Protection Systems (LPS) despite the advice given on YouTube (by various parties I will not name) need to be Code Compliant (see NFPA 780), need to be designed by a Certified LPS Designer, need to have UL components (UL 96), and need to have side-arc flash protection (where required IEE 142, NFPA 77, UL 467) and bonding to a counterpoise. IBC do not require LPS but NFPA does IF (a big IF) your structure happens to be out of the "shadow" or "sphere" of a lightning occurrence.
A common prescriptive rule would be that if you live in a building beside a taller building, the taller building is more susceptible to a lightning strike. Same case if you live within a forest/woods with tall trees. Only a Lightning Risk Assessment can determine that (ref: "The lightning risk assessment should take into account parameters associated with the structure and its surrounds, the lightning flash density of the location, and the importance of the facility and its processes to the business, the community, and the environment.")

Bill: How come you decided to mitigate future lightning strikes when everyone knows that lightning does not strike twice in the same place? I'm kidding!
But I'm glad you have taken mitigating measures rather than see valuable equipment/house becoming toast.
Sincerely,
John Graham.

 

[Bill Ferris]

Food for thought (for everyone - I'm not singling Bill Ferris out):
Lightning Protection Systems (LPS) despite the advice given on YouTube (by various parties I will not name) need to be Code Compliant (see NFPA 780), need to be designed by a Certified LPS Designer, need to have UL components (UL 96), and need to have side-arc flash protection (where required IEE 142, NFPA 77, UL 467) and bonding to a counterpoise. IBC do not require LPS but NFPA does IF (a big IF) your structure happens to be out of the "shadow" or "sphere" of a lightning occurrence.
A common prescriptive rule would be that if you live in a building beside a taller building, the taller building is more susceptible to a lightning strike. Same case if you live within a forest/woods with tall trees. Only a Lightning Risk Assessment can determine that (ref: "The lightning risk assessment should take into account parameters associated with the structure and its surrounds, the lightning flash density of the location, and the importance of the facility and its processes to the business, the community, and the environment.")

Bill: How come you decided to mitigate future lightning strikes when everyone knows that lightning does not strike twice in the same place? I'm kidding!
But I'm glad you have taken mitigating measures rather than see valuable equipment/house becoming toast.
Sincerely,
John Graham.

Thank you, kind Sir. for the generous lightning based surge/spike mitigation compliment.
As I`ve said a bunch of times here on A/K over the yrs., I`m very comfortable and confident with my SPD devices and evolving methods employed since 1991.

 

[krautmaster]

I think lightning has been try to get me since 1975... a strike in the back yard killed my Labrador Retriever, then the strike 40-50 feet away while camping that saved me from being eaten by a mountain lion in 1978... USAF planes I was flying in were hit SEVEN times from 1984-2004.

And lately I've had lightning hit my backyard twice in the last year- first strike killed the pump in our waterfall and the ground fault outlet it plugs into. Second strike killed a tree (that I hated anyway) and the neighbors tree too...

I better watch my arse !