Thread: Power Surge Damage

ask the company for a letter as to when the dates of power surges were, as u want to claim on your insurance company.

when they send you the letter, which they will, you send them a letter of demand, which they have admitted to the surges.

worked for me

Gday, i tried to claim a ham radio & modem that went out NYE 2009/2010 when lightning struck the power pole across the road from me.. they made it very hard. be ready for a fight! .. im 99.9% sure that lightning strike took my gear out!

still something wrong with the pole too... crows keep falling off the pole and landing in the gutter dead! happpens every month or so

Originally Posted by matt29502

still something wrong with the pole too... crows keep falling off the pole and landing in the gutter dead! happpens every month or so

rofl

Originally Posted by gordon_s1942

How would you test for damage caused by a surge or even a lightning strike come to that matter unless there are very visible signs of damage and a burnt plastic smell.
It was working and now it isnt.
Would I be wrong in thinking there is no chance in Hell of the Electricity Supplier admitting to any fluctuations unless its absolutely impossible to ignore like a transformer blowing up or a power line being knocked down because of an accident etc and your aware of others having similar damage done to their appliances.

When I used to repair TV's VCR's etc I often got stuff in that was reportedly caused by surges or spikes etc, with the customer wanting a report for insurance claims. Most of the time it was pretty well impossible to say what caused the fault and all you can do is is give them a letter saying that it is "possible" that the fault was caused by a surge or spike. Most of the "lightning strike to antenna" faults were easy to verify though especially where the components had been vaporised from the board, or where the tuner module was left as a melted metal blob.

still something wrong with the pole too... crows keep falling off the pole and landing in the gutter dead! happens every month or so

Are you sure its the pole or maybe a small lead ball to the head

SS Dave

Haha, naah nothing like that Dave! well not from me anyway !~!

i was standing out there near the pole a month ago seeing a visitor off & one landed a couple meters away from me lol ZAp, doooF!
. I called Hydro & Aurora, they didnt seem to care about it

i dont stand there any more!

Matt29502

glad to see you have seen the funny side

SS Dave

Originally Posted by SS Dave

Matt29502

glad to see you have seen the funny side

SS Dave

I live the funny side mate (Tassie) lol

Normolly surges or spikes in the mains power you will see the main 400v electro bent out of shape top off ext the bridge rec s/c and god nos what on the secondary side, on modern sets the is a posister across the main supply that short if voltadge go over 300v and just take out the main fuse ( lol in practice not allways you find the posister blown appart)

Sorry its a Varistor not posister (voltage dependant resistor)

Sorry for late reply, I thought no one even checked this thread.

Basically for about 2 weeks, we had power outages, like 4-5 times every night and 4-5 times during the day.

Couple of things simply refuse to switch on and all of these are electronic items that are very sensitive to power fluctuations ie. Desktop, laptop, plasma xbox and router. Except tele everything else was connected to router via Ethernet cable and router is the only one smelling burnt.

If not power surge then I think I have a ghost as all of these were plugged in when I went to sleep and refuse to work the next day, lol

we have been waiting for a follow up, (not a follow through) and whats happened ?