It's an OLD Northern Telecom surge protector. Heavy duty stuff,
industrial grade originally intended for internal use. This ain't one of
those under $20 pieces of crap you get at Best Buy.
Nortel sold a whole lot of stuff as surplus when they downsized their
operations in NC's Research Triangle Park. New in the box when I got it,
but no "insurance" other than the warranty for the surge protector
itself ... which has probably run out.
I'm not sure whether the surge came through the power lines or through
the cable. What I think might have happened is the lightning strike sent
a surge through the cable and it jumped through the air from where the
cable connector is mounted on the wall.
The cable between the wall connector and the modem is kind of long and
most of it is coiled up on the floor behind table the printer, modem &
router sit on. The printer was physically the closest device to the
cable outlet. I heard a loud snap & saw a bright light out of the corner
of my eye. I checked all the equipment on the table & the printer was dead.
My setup has a UPS and the printer plugged into the surge protector.
The computer, monitor, router and NAS all plug into the UPS. The only
device that didn't draw power through the surge protector is the cable
modem, which appears to be unaffected.
How would you test a surge protector to see if it's still good? There's
a "System Alert" indicator on the top of the surge protector and it's
not lit up.
From: "John Mullan"
Surge protector manufacturers often have an insurance policy on devices
connected to their product that get fried. Contact the manufacturer. The
surge protector is probably fried too.
jm
-----Original Message-----
From: John Sessoms
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 6:50 PM
To: pdml@pdml.net
Subject: OT: Now I'm pissed off!
Lightning strike nearby just fried my laser printer (utility document
printer).
It was plugged in through my surge protector. Nothing else appears to
have been affected, including some stuff that was not on the surge
protector.
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