Rick, we have a whole-house surge protector, it is wired in through the main circuit panel. It seems to help. Or maybe my running in circles three times shouting “boo Canon, boo Nikon, yeah Pentax” is what has provided the protection. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Stan
Sent from my iPad > On Dec 8, 2023, at 6:10 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Doug, > > It's certainly not normal! We've been in this house 37 years and have never > had an event like this before. > > We're looking into getting a whole-house surge protector to provide a > second layer of defense.. > > Rick > >> On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 6:56 PM Doug Brewer <d...@dougbrewerphoto.com> wrote: >> >> Rick, have you spoken to your power provider? I mean, we're aware of >> your history with electronic equipment and some software packages, but >> this kind of event is not normal. >> >> >>> On 12/7/23 5:48 PM, Rick Womer wrote: >>> I don't know about the server gods, but some gods somewhere weren't happy >>> with my photo computer . >>> >>> On the night of November 13 it seems that our house had a massive power >>> surge. The victims were (1) my photo computer setup, consisting of a Mac >>> Mini and two on-line OWC hard drives. A few days later we learned that >> the >>> control circuit board and some of the wiring for our house's minisplit >>> AC/heating system were partially melted (we are now using our hot water >>> heating system). >>> >>> We're waiting for a new circuit board and valves for the minisplit >> system, >>> and I've been chipping away at the computer problems. The OS on the Mac >>> needs replacing, and both external drives have media and file system >> errors >>> on Disk Utility which are making them flaky. >>> >>> So, in the midst of other activities, I've been chipping away at the >>> problem. I'm shifting files from two other external hard drives (which >>> aren't in daily use) so that I can shift my files off the damaged drives >>> and reformat them. >>> >>> Then I'll be able to transfer a bunch of files, reformat the external >>> drives they were on, transfer files back, and hope that Lightroom >>> cooperates in getting everything accessible. >>> >>> Stay tuned. >>> >>> Rick >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
