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Re: [ECS] Lightning Strike Carl Keyes Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:08:33 PDT

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Bill,

Sorry to hear of your big hit.
Try www.dancraft.com for what
to get to check it out.

later,

Carl


>From: Bill Walters <wtwalters@home.com>
>Reply-To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
>To: ECS List <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
>Subject: [ECS] Lightning Strike
>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:43:24 -0500
>
>Well...
>
>Woke up this morning to a loud boom and flash of light...  Lightning
>strike about 30 yards from my back property line.... Gee.. sure glad I
>put in whold house surge suppression last year...
>
>Cursory testing however, reveals the following:
>
>1.  Network hub - inoperative
>2.  Prairie Digital 40 - inoperative
>3.  IR-3 - inoperative
>4.  Network card in main downstairs computer - inoperative.
>
>
>Got a new hub and one new network card; so network & all is back up and
>running.
>
>Not sure what to do about loss of PD-40 & IR-3...  Did a little
>preliminary troubleshooting; hooked PD-40 to known good serial port and
>ran the diagnostic disk included with it..... nothing returned from
>PD-40.  Any suggestions?
>
>Don't have any software to test/examine the IR-3 (IR-Jukebox).  Anybody
>got anything or any suggestions?  
>
>However, looks like all X-10 switches survived....
>
>Time will tell.
>
>Bill Walters


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