It's lightning season. Take steps to protect your electronics! At Little d Technology we carry battery back up surge protectors for guaranteed lightning and surge protection by APC.
An article by L-COM
While there are many factors involved in determining if lightning will strike a building - including location, time of year, and proximity to other buildings - the threat is real and costly around the world. Even if you are in a part of the world where lightning levels are low, or if you are in a building protected by taller buildings around it, a direct lightning strike is not the only way to damage sensitive electronic equipment. Damage from lightning includes expensive downtime, loss of important data, and the potential safety threats of critical automation equipment being down, as in a hospital or sewerage treatment plant. And that doesn’t even take into account the expense of replacing blown-out electronic equipment.
Let’s consider your electronic equipment, specifically. Lightning indirectly causes earth-voltage spikes and electromagnetic fields, which wreak havoc with electronic power and signal circuits. This alone can fry anything connected to the circuits, including coaxial, Ethernet, and telephone lines. But the damage doesn’t stop at one building. Entire campuses may be linked by above-ground and below-ground cabling systems, which can carry a spike vast distances to burn out electronics.
While there is no one method that is certain to protect electronics from a direct strike, there are many cost-effective measures that must be taken to increase the odds of the survival of your electrical equipment.
