Re: running cat5e outside

["Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>]

Keith,

Are the lightning suppressors effective in preventing this kind of damage,
or do they just limit the effects ?

The surge-protected power strips which include telephone line protection
seem a good idea but if the lightning "jumps around" once it's
inside the
house are they really worth the money ?


Thanks,

Tim.

P.S. re: your last point, presumably your employer provided a clean pair of
trousers ?? ;-)

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 01:01:41 -0000
From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Re: running cat5e outside

If you get a direct strike NOTHING survives.

Many moons ago I had to go to a housing estate where a telegraph pole had
been hit.

Every house on the estate had to have all the phone wiring renewed.

At one house I pressed the doorbell but nothing happened so I knocked. When
the owner opened the door I saw why the bell didnt ring. The phone wire and
the wire for the doorbell had been run along the skirting board. The
skirting board was laying at the opposite side of the hall having been
blasted off the wall.

Another house had a wall mounted phone, the lightning made its way into the
phone, through the breezeblock to the earthed metal box for the lightswitch
on the other side of the wall. The switch and box were blown out of the
wall
and hit the wall at the other side of the kitchen.

What was REALLY SCARY was that I was up a pole about a mile away when the
lightning hit that pole. I was down the pole in about 2 milliseconds !!!!!!

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall


Nightmare!!

Does LV cable survive this sort of thing...or could a single strike wipe
out an entire structured cable install?

M.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Davidson
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: running cat5e outside


I was hit by lightning at the last house, it struck an aerial at the

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