damn some just grounded near here and i heard my monitor make a 'pop' before I heard it.... interesting... i wonder what kinda EM fields get generated by lightening?

6/2/2006 7:25:28 PM

wouldnt a surge on the power grid be more likely?

6/2/2006 7:28:33 PM

we lost power here.

6/2/2006 7:33:18 PM

heh, i have my big ass UPS running the router and cable modem via a 50 foot dropcord at the moment

6/2/2006 9:18:00 PM

Lightening produces a huge EM spike. The national lightening detection network consists of stations more than a hundred kilometers appart that just monitor the background EM field. The perturbations caused by lightening allow these stations to triangulate the position of lightening, measure their polarity and the number of return strokes, and in which direction they travel (up or down) all at distances of well over 100 miles.

6/2/2006 10:48:24 PM

there is no "e" in lightning.

dipshits

6/3/2006 1:24:57 PM

Quote :

"wouldn't a surge on the power grid be more likely?"

without the power grid out? and a $50k insured surge protector? or this having never occurred before?

Quote :

"there is no "e" in lightning. dipshits"

there's no aaronburro in tech talk either....

[Edited on June 4, 2006 at 12:54 AM. Reason : 3]

6/4/2006 12:53:44 AM