Recently, a thunderstorm fried my PC’s power supply and its motherboard. Although I wasn’t home at the time, I am pretty sure it was the storm and lightning-related surge of some type that did it, and ...

Because wireless systems are typically located out of doors and have components located on towers and tall buildings, they are especially susceptible to damage from lightning. Therefore, it is ...

The radio engineer does his best to prevent its intrusion into his equipment, but having a steel structure extending from 150 feet to 1,000 feet in the air invites lightning strikes. Nevertheless, ...

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To unplug or not to unplug? That’s just one of many questions that plague South Africans living in the era of rolling blackouts. When the electricity supply suddenly returns after rolling blackouts, ...

Between thunderstorms, blackouts and load shedding, chances are you may have already experienced the results of a powerful surge on your equipment. In modern electronics, almost everything is ...

In recent years, photovoltaic (PV) systems have become a significant sector within the energy market, with the International Energy Agency in 2011 saying that “the development of affordable, ...

The Gadget: The ezGear UFO, a relatively compact surge protector/power strip that holds six distinct AC adapters so they don’t bump into each other. https://gizmodo ...

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Gold Coast trams lay idle for more than 48 hours after last week’s storms caused damage to the line that ultimately caused the system to fail at 3.30am on Saturday. Services only resumed at 5am ...