My area has historically poor electric service, so I have multiple stages of protection, starting the service panel. But when we get these violent electrical storms, I pull the plug on my gear. I think that's the best protection, and I'm not going to listen to the system in the middle of a storm anyway.
Unplug or ride out the storm?
In most years we have a couple of severe thunderstorms and to be safe I unplug everything. This summer is like twilight zone. Probably 15 or 20 significant electrical storms. I've been unplugging everything even though I have Furman surge protection and power conditioning. I'm confident it will work if called upon but don't want to put it to the test if I don't have to. Kind of like lifeboats on a ship. They probably work fine but you'd rather not have to test them out. The bad part (whether placebo or real) I'm convinced some of my components take anywhere from 2 hours to 2 days to really hit their stride when they've been unplugged and allowed to cool off. Just curious what everybody else does
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