Could a lightning strike damage my surge protection power strip?
Posted By RichC on August 19, 2025
It is the time of years that summer storm whip through the area and occasionally the lightning gets pretty close. It happened last week and then I notice that my fairly new surge protector power strip wasn’t working (below). I reset the little breaker switch and the 110v ac plugs came back on, but the USB circuit would not. My Peak Design wireless charger stopped working as well and didn’t really thing about the lightning storm at the time?
Unfortunately the warranty on the power strip was not as good as no-questions Peak Design products … but on the other hand it is a very low priced product. So I picked up a new “cheap” on again and all is working as it should be again.
On a different … but shopping oriented … topic, a guy at BeachBub who helped me out last year added me to the list of people who might be interested in their DEMO DAYS sale. I knew from the last go around that their demo umbrellas would disappear quickly, so I immediately click the order button. The second BeachBub umbrella has arrived and all I need to do now is get it to Florida. It will be great as a spare and nice to have when the kids come down to visit.
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