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  On 26/06/2016 at 4:31 AM, betty boop said:

lets not get into builders and their practices they rip you off rotten for anything optional... bit like buying new cars.

 

however the devices in question even if bought by an end user as have pointed out in two links  is in the very small fry category...no pun intended :D my grey army sparky was able to buy a lot cheaper at whole sale trade price he gets and am sure the builders will be buying even cheaper again. id say your case highlights  and worth doing since serves well to make sure anyone considering such device whether in a new build or after market can be well aware so they dont get ripped off ! as builders clearly like to do .... any opportunity !  :)

You're absolutely right, well worth doing, if you add the cost of what you have at home it's not cheap, even if it is insured!

Just remember that it's not the only path in, the antenna to your TV or a satellite dish, telephone cables and solar panels are another path of guiding that strike into the circuit of the house, hopefully with PV, and I'm sure it is, it's wired in a way that this device will stop it dead in its tracks.

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Just a thought. UPS system with enough batteries and disconnected from mains will work. Of course, for how long, depends on the current draw. Considering what some of you blokes put into hifi monetarily, a UPS isn't that much in comparison.

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  On 26/06/2016 at 11:35 AM, Linkin said:

Just a thought. UPS system with enough batteries and disconnected from mains will work. Of course, for how long, depends on the current draw. Considering what some of you blokes put into hifi monetarily, a UPS isn't that much in comparison.

 

 

Interesting thought.

 

I googled "UPS for hifi" and found a few threads in SNA, e.g.

 

http://www.stereo.net.au/forums/index.php/topic/88721-ups-or-surge-protector-for-the-hi-fi-system-yes-no-if-yes-what/page-2

 

A quick read does not suggest there is much enthusiasm for this.  

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Yes ethernet is worth considering too. We had a lightning storm here in Jan I think it was. It sounded like it was hitting the house - it was that loud! I had disconnected everything from the power points and so was relaxed. Next morning, we had a fried AV receiver, PS4, NAS and ADSL router. Yes, I'd disconnected all power, but left the ethernet cables in. So if you're pulling power plugs out, make sure you follow up with the ethernet connections! 

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We've had a couple of strikes.  

 

On the 1st occasion nothing appeared to have happened.  However 12 months or so later the 'switch on' relays of an amp failed and the tech said that it looked a lot like the effects of a lightning strike.

 

The second one came in through the phone line and took out the ADSL splitters, security system, router, ethernet switches, but just one of the several computers.  Telstra agreed that we lived in a high probability area so they put in a lightning box thingo on the incoming phone line that they connected to the earth stake.  Free.

 

I power off and unplug as much as I can these days.

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