[TenTec] Grounding

[Pol]

Not to chime in with a "...me too..." but I figure if we get a 
critical mass of "...me too..." those doubting that "surges happen" 
will see the light. I live in Central Oregon and we do NOT get a lot 
of lightening storms. But occasionally one passes though....or 
something happened because one day my door bell quit working. I 
looked at it, after a friend said they had to knock 'cause the bell 
was a silent as the "p" in swimming. It looked as if one of two 
plungers was fused - because I couldn't associate causality, I wasn't 
sure what I was seeing. Then I noticed the electric garage door 
wasn't opening/closing as usual and a day or two later it started 
singing with the choir invisible.

My point is - my computer room and 7 piece stereo station were all on 
the same circuit - all surge protected - even if with the cheapest 
OfficeMax device. But they were all fine. I don't know what it was - 
there was no Notice from the Power Company that anything had 
happened. But it seems somehow a tsunami of a power surge visited the 
house and took out all the unprotected gear on that one line. Cost me 
$13 for a new door bell and around $63 for a new Garage Door 
Controller board.

73,

Paul