Did anyone else disconnect thier equipment due to the geomagnetic storms?

Hey @rvpiano  - Your problems started about a week before the sun had a flare or coronal mass ejection.  Also, they are bizarre, I have been thinking maybe what you had was some weird ground loop problem caused by the speaker amp and the sub amp being hooked up to different outlets.  If you have a chance to talk to GE again I'd bring up that possibility. Honestly I don't know enough about how their sub amps are connected to really have a strong opinion, but after your second set of issues I have to believe it's not a typical surge situation, and ground issues are the only thing I can think of.  I am however, not an expert in the field.

I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but a power surge destroyed the subwoofer components of my GoldenEar speakers.

I use a moon rock needle with the google phonic sound- no need

I unplugged only by black hole presence...

But with my aluminium hat i created a new kind of field... 😊

I dont want to mock everyone with my joke by the way... Audio cost is something to be protected...

Whenever there’s a large thunderstorm, I unplug everything, but I have rarely unplugged everything for a solar storm. 

My DVR lost it's ability to record causing me to miss Saturday Night Live.  It now works fine again after a reboot.

No reason to.

I'm unplugging all my amps. THE Show 2024, OC. Costa Mesa audio show on June 7-9 (my rm #272) is coming up. I can't afford any amp problem now. Alex/WTA

Nope, didn't unplug anything. I have complete faith in my APC BackUps.

It’s ok, I painted all my gear blue. The weird thing is my system sounded amazing. My speakers love power! 😁

All you need is a flux capacitor.

what could happen ...?

If you’re grown wary of your equipment, you can remove all the surge protection and hope for the best ... er ... worst.

This was nowhere near the Carrington event in intensity. And the electrical grid of today is far more resilient than anything in the early 1900s, with load balancing, and a lot of microprocessors in control.

I’d only *maybe* worry a bit if I were still into shortwave radio (which sadly is pretty much dead now thanks to the Internet) and had antenna dipole lengths on the order of 30 feet.

It did make for some nice auroras though, even as far south as Florida. Here in NC they were the best in 20 years on Friday.

It will be interesting to see how much damage was done to Starlink and other communications satellites in low earth orbit or much further out at geosynchronous orbit that were not as protected.  

No at my breaker I have a dedicated surge power correction 

vH audio has them on sale ,I have theSiemens surge for whole house 

and the Dedicated one from VH audio on my dedicated line ,and sounds great for only just under $1k plus $250 instal charge.

No

Lets imagine they DO create “currents”. How strong they would be and do you think properly designed power supply would not be able to filter them out.

No, but space lasers can strip your gears.

@mapman Ah Scotty! The Dilithium crystals will hold..

Shields holding captain but I dinna kin if the engines can take much more of this…. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

All my equipment is on 24/7 and most of it is tube equipment.

I'll get around to it maybe next week.  Or the following week, if I remember.  

yes... Pretty much all quebec but more in some locations... 9 hours without electricity taught us a lot about electricity ... 😊

@mahgister -      Were you affected by the 1989 Quebec Solar Outage?

       Dryers typically run on 240V, so: I 'spose they'd get a double dose of any surge.

@mahgister -      Were you affected by the 1989 Quebec Solar Outage?

Audiophiles need dry clothes.

😊

I’m going to trust in my Furman, APC and Tripp Lite gear to seem me through this storm too. 

As I pointed out in another thread, a CNN weather reporter was recommending we all disconnect our dryers.  Of all the pieces of gear in his home this is what he was most worried about. 

«CMEs travel outward from the Sun at speeds ranging from slower than 250 kilometers per second (km/s) to as fast as near 3000 km/s. The fastest Earth-directed CMEs can reach our planet in as little as 15-18 hours. Slower CMEs can take several days to arrive.»

I want to listen music then i will pray that the Quebec grid will be Ok and my location my luck...

I dont know... 😊