[Elecraft] ERR IO3 more!!

[R. Kevin Stover]

Probably not.

As long as there's a conductor of any sort the strike energy will get
passed along somewhere. All you'll be doing is sacrificing a USB-serial
adapter and not saving anything.

At my former QTH, out in the country, I was limited to dial-up Internet
which meant modems. I lost at least 3 modems to nearby lightning
strikes, one of which took the computer motherboard, all on-board Ram,
the video card, and one of two hard drives with it. All of that was
destroyed by the simple phone line connection. Nothing else in the
house was destroyed so the surge didn't come in on the power connection.

The lightning strike that did this mayhem was 200 yards away and blew
up the maple tree it hit. It also induced a large surge in the phone
lines hanging from the pole next to it.


On Sun, 01 May 2011 13:19:30 +0200
Pierfrancesco Caci <pf at tippete.net> wrote:

> 
> alternatively, would the use of a usb->232 adapter instead of a direct
> rs232 connection help prevent this ? I wouldn't mind zapping a 15 EUR
> usb dongle.
> 
> Pf

> 



-- 
R. Kevin Stover
AC0H