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


The dangers of these storms has been minimized by the press. Large magnetic pulses the hit exposed power lines will create electric currents. Take a quick read of wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event to get the idea. Call me super cautious, but I will take a short listening vacation for another day until the level drops below K8. www.spaceweatherlive.com.  If you are into the details you cab read about the current event here: www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity/magnetometers.html

markcasazza

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

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...

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

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.