Hello people,
Right now we have a thunderstorm here.
In 2016, do i need to unplug devices from the sockets during a thunderstorm?
I live in a small, modern, first-world-country city in a normal residential home.
Are there failsafes in the electricity grid?
Can the house itself take a direct hit?
The sockets here are not fused, afaik the only fusing is in the house's powerbox.
I have been on a farm when lightning had struck overnight, next morning all we needed to do was push the big ceramic fuses back into the powerbox and everything worked, it was unclear where the lightning has hit.
I'm not an expert on physics and electricity, but i passed my highschool exam a few years ago.
I'd say i'm safe, but i'd be guessing, so i thought i could better ask.
It's hailing golfball sized hail now
Do you have a circuit breaker?
>>8110325
Even in modern buildings electronics can get fried from a nearby strike.
A proper surge protector *should* fix this.
friend just lost a TV to a strike.
>>8110364
I don't know.
We have main switches that disconnect themselves under certain circumstances, but i don't know if those are circuit breakers.
>>8110389
I have done some google'ing, and people say a surge protector will protect if the power cones back on, but not if the current goes above the line current.
People say you need a spike protector for that.
But i don't have any fancy protectors, just a normal residential circuit.
>>8110325
>first-world-country city
if you aren't counting america then you can be sure that you do have circuit breakers
>>8110422
Do those solve every problem except a direct hit?
If yes, i'm good, because we have earth-leak-switches (literally translated) that throw themselves in case of bad stuff.
Most info i could find was about americans and i already thought they would have worse electrical protection than the netherlands, but i wasn't sure if we have lightning protection
All powerlines are burried in the earth except the ones that are for long-range-transport of power between power stations.
And i checked, i have circuit breakers.
I am extremely unlikely to be struck by lightning directly, because i live in a city and there are higher objects with a lot more metal, for example the nearly all-metal bridge 100 meters away.
Lightning struck the bridge half an hour ago.
It was a deafening noise, even inside.
But the power didn't black or brown out.
It's cleared up, for now.
Op is in Europe.
Op is has paranoia.
Op is a faggot.
>>8110866
Yes, i'm in europe, hence i doubt the electrical safety instead of knowing it's unsafe because 'murica.
No, i'm not paranoid.
Other have told me i should unplug everything, and i'm just being skeptical.
No, i'm not a faggot, although you are.
>>8110808
This morning i discovered that the bridge acted as a coil and killed all nearby traffic lights.
