On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:51:09PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My wife's prius needs to have parts of it's computer replaced and the > emeter just needed a fuse thankfully. Now this may have just be a huge > coincidence that everything worked before an electrical storm and both my > EV and HEV had electrical problems after it.
The EV taking a spike thru the charger is pretty easy to believe. The Prius, with no connection to anything, is pretty impressive. Blowing a fuse on the EV implies some significant current flow... I can't come up with any good explaination, except inductive/EMP effects from an close lightening strike. Other than building a Faraday cage around your garage, I don't see anyway to prevent this in the future. Thinking further a more pluasible explaination: cool temps followed by a sudden increase in humidity might have caused water to condense on electrical parts... Anyway you look at it, if they are connected: it was a freak event, not likely to occur again. (Tell that to the guy who personnaly got hit by lightening 9 times ;-) ) Mark Farver "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis O. Brandeis, Olmstead vs. United States
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