@immatthewj I believe you are defeating the protection that breakers provide by tripping them. Best to unplug your mains cables from the outlets.
Nothing will protect stereo equipment with a direct lightning hit to your house.
Surge protector
This morning we had a power surge. First one I ever experienced. It knocked out the sub woofer components of my GoldenEar Triton one speakers. In my ignorance I had them plugged into the wall rather than a surge protector. Soooo it blew the amplifiers in the sub woofers. It’s going to be a costly proposition: $500 for the amplifiers plus God knows how much the dealer is going to charge for coming to my house. (He’s very reluctant to do it, wants me to lug the 80 lbs speakers to the store.
Meanwhile, I’m having to listen to bass-less speakers for the foreseeable future.
So, the moral of the story is plug everything into a surge protector.
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@vinylshadow there is a comment up above by @jea48 and he actually addressed my question of whether a massive voltage spike could jump across an 'open' breaker, and once again, I was wrong, as @jea48 states that, 'Yes, it can, so best to unplug.' However, I am not sure what you mean by
If I am not mistaken, the protection that a breaker provides to a circuit is that when the circuit is overloaded with too many amps the breaker reacts to the heat generated by that overload of amperage and then it trips and opens that circuit and then everything powered by that circuit is without power. So how does me manually tripping that breaker possibly defeat the protection the breaker offers? |
+1 on that, @rvpiano , I am going to be right behind you. Are you going to use the cord that comes with the PST-8, as I think it is an 18 gauge cord, or are you going to put a heavier cord on it? |
@jea48 , would a several 1000 Volt lightning transient be like a direct hit? |
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