yuandrew
Flashlight Enthusiast
Yikes, does anyone think this can happen
http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/mar7/power.html
We don't have a lot of overhead distribution lines in my area but there are high voltage transmission lines running through the hills in some places. None of them are near distribution lines (Well, maybe in the Carbon Canyon but the transmission lines are stretched across the top of the canyon and the distribution lines are 1000' below)
A friend of mine did tell me something similar happened to his neighbors but it was caused a faulty transformer. Somehow, the high voltage primary leaked to the secondary. Blew all the appliances and electronics in their house. No one was home at that time so there wern't any injuries but the damage costed a lot.
Should I get a couple of isolation transformers just to run my laptop? :duck:
http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/mar7/power.html
We don't have a lot of overhead distribution lines in my area but there are high voltage transmission lines running through the hills in some places. None of them are near distribution lines (Well, maybe in the Carbon Canyon but the transmission lines are stretched across the top of the canyon and the distribution lines are 1000' below)
A friend of mine did tell me something similar happened to his neighbors but it was caused a faulty transformer. Somehow, the high voltage primary leaked to the secondary. Blew all the appliances and electronics in their house. No one was home at that time so there wern't any injuries but the damage costed a lot.
Should I get a couple of isolation transformers just to run my laptop? :duck: