Where I live lightening strikes are pretty common – probably a couple near strikes per year. As such I have surge protectors everywhere plus a whole house unit.

Anyway the last strike got into my Ethernet cabling taking out things both in the house & workshop. So in the workshop it got my network switch, PC, & both controllers for my PCNC 1100 & 15L Slant Pro. It also blew-out the MESA 7i92H card in the lathe.

Anyway, I got everything repaired & now have surge protectors installed across my network too. The cable between the house & workshop has one on each end.



The strike blew a chunk out of this chip on the 7I92H board: