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Lightening damage - any hope?

We had a violent electrical storm at my home a couple of days ago and some of my AV gear no longer even turns on. The damaged components are Sony Blu-ray player, Marantz AV Processor, AppleTV, Spectrum Cable box, Netgear router. It seems that the damage came in thru the Spectrum cable for my Internet service.. All of the damaged components were connected to my network via Cat6.

Curiously, the components that I had isolated with fiber converters (to lower the cable noise) were undamaged. That included my ML5505 integrated amp and my Aurender N200 streamer (thank goodness).

For the electrical geniuses out there is there any hope that the damaged components can be repaired from a spike coming in thru the ethernet cable? I'm rather surprised that these components won't even turn on.

Any insight. would be appreciated.

jhcjr

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oddiofyl
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Some units may also have internal fuses in addition to the Aac mains.   Might be worth taking the covers off what you can. 

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oddiofyl
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Sorry to hear that but it's good that the N200 and the amp were spared .   I have both systems isolated with fiber optic media converters.   I also did it to combat noise , I never thought about stuff getting fried via Ethernet.  

Hopefully your post will save someone that nightmare.  It's cheap to do,  in my main system I have a TP Link gigabit switch with 2 SFP ports one going to a TP media converter .   The second system uses a TP Link media converter on each end.   Cheap insurance and absolutely dead quiet digital

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