Thread: Burnt Cable!
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Old 13-11-2009, 13:41   #7
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Re: Burnt Cable!

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Originally Posted by speedymove View Post
Hi Kymmy, true enough but the fact that every other piece of electrical equiptment in the house survived and showed no adverse affects from the power drop is cause for concern. Why is it that just the coax to the second box burned and nothing else.
Because the faut would have been in the cabinet, which could be a street or two away and maybe even on a different little substation..

Also some stuff is more susceptable to low power causing problems, to get techie a badly made switch mode PSU can open up the voltage line if the power drops and it has a fault, so instead of getting 12v it's not uncommon to get a to higher..

Lightning strikes (miles away) and other problems could also exhibit the same symptoms
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