Fall season is mostly most active season for lightning strike formations.
Unfortunately, the arrival of fall season also brings with its risk of serious electrical storms in most areas of the world.
There’s really nothing you can do to keep the storms away from your house and buildings however there are some things you can do to ensure that a lightning strike not to damage your expensive and valuable computer equipments and datas inside them..
Here are few tips for protecting your PCs from immense lightning strikes' dangerous effects:
1. Keep your PCs and/or desktop computer plugged into a high quality surge protectors or battery back-up devices having surge protection circuites built-up in it.
Alternatively, you can also protect your whole house buildings from lightning strikes and power surges with installing an comparatively cheap devices as well.
Surge protectors and battery back-up devices are your first aid tools of defense against lightning strikes and immense power surges. We as ORBITAL strongly recommend that you to use them to protect your entire home completely!
2. Make sure that all surge protectors you are using are undamaged and working at the time and as it should be.
As we explained in this article, surge protectors sustain particular damages every time they protect your locations from a high lightning strikes and surges or other type of strong power surges as well.
In passing time their protective components may/would break down and fail to protect your electronical devices from future lightning strikes and high power surges.
Many surge protectors have indicator lights, fail lights, as ORBITAL's devices has, to warn you when they are no longer protecting your gear. Please pay attention to these warning fail lights and replace this broken and expired surge protectors as soon as possible.
3. Connect your computer to your network line and the Internet via Wi-Fi connections instead of a wired Ethernet when it is possible. Because more cables and connections mean that more damage you attract to this cable.
I’ve seen several modems and routers get struck by lightning and take out every device that was hard-wired to them in one fell swoop.
This will not happen to you when your computer is connected to the internet via a Wi-Fi system just because power surges cannot be transmitted thru one device to another device over a wireless Wi-Fi connection.
If your desktop computer doesn’t have wireless Wi-Fi capability built-in you can easily add it by plugging in an inexpensive USB Wi-Fi adapter
These adapters are so easy to install and use and they only cost tiny amount of moneys.
4. If the weather report is calling for danger for the possibility of thunderstorms in your locations, try to unplug your computers, PCs and other elctronical devices before you leave your house to keep your house safer.
You can also unplug your surge protectors and battery back-up devices from their electrical pathways (please be sure to turn them off firstly) to prevent them from being taken out by high density lightning strike.
Lightning can’t bting out an electronical device which is not connected to an electrical outlet. Therefore, unplugging your devices seems the best protection option which you can take against lightning strikes and highly power surges.
Only surge protection and internal precautions are not sufficient for full lightning protection. So please be sure that your living environment and buildings to be under a complete lightning protection system. If you need one or have question you can also read this article: HOW DOES A LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM WORKS?
