@Gillyathome wrote:
Hi Griffin
Let me correct a few things you’ve mentioned.
Virgin’s managers came to visit my flat, network manager accompanied by the
Customer services manager.
And what did they say about the melted piece of plastic that was your v6 box?
It was the network manager who explained to me that he was responsible for everything
Up to the street cabinet. From the cabinet to peoples house was the customer services
Manager responsibility.
Not arguing with that
It was talking with the network manager, he explained to me that the equipment in the
Street cabinet was all blown up that night.
I noticed virgin engineers where working in the cab the follow day.
Again which Cab?there are several, my money would be the one adjacent to the garage, as that looks like an active Cab.
So. how did it catch fire, millions of volts travelling down a 2mm conductor, designed to carry millivolts hitting the tapboard where there is nothing much to catch fire. however the current would be passed on to every device connected to the tap board, "blowing up" Hubs and V6s for fun.
Or. through the amplifier's connection to the main power supply, overloading the transformer?
Have a search on say… amazon for isolators – check the spec’s
That’s the only thing protecting customers.. I would have brought anything else I needed
to protect myself. Like my UPS and surge protectors… all bypassed by a single coax cable.
That doesn't make sense, read any technical article about isolators, surge protectors and UPS, anyone with an ounce of knowledge will tell you the same, all useless against the ferocity of a lightening strike. You have been told this many times on the thread by many people, refusing to listen does not change the fact.
It was the London Fire bridge that cut a 2mt square hole and quite deep, in the front garden at the house that was on fire
They needed to access to street power cables… the cables where then cut by UK Power Network’s
to make the street safe.
Unusual to see Firemen moonlighting as navvies, usually they are a tad busy putting out fires and doing lifesaving sort of things.
I am not sure why they would need to see the cables unless they where on fire and wanted to put the out. They must have had a spare jackhammer on the fire tender to break through the concrete hard standing, as that is the type of specialist gear they carry. The easiest way to make the street safe would be to cordon off the immediate area.(done it myself quite a few times)
The Electric Companies Emergency response team would have attended, they carry things like jackhammers and shovels and usually have a 3T excavator on a trailer for these sort of things. As so many people were without power it looked like the electric distribution cable had blown due to the lightening strike and needed to repair the cable in the pavement. (Note the Fire Brigade are not allowed to dig up roads and pavements.) The lightening strike probably grounded at this point.
I don’t live in the same street, so I didn’t lose any power at all.
Proof that you were not hit by a lightening strike. You repeatedly fail to understand the pure ferocity of a lightening strike.
we did shared the same virgin cabinet.
Proof??
Bear in mind the trench scars in the pavement show the affected house was connected to a cabinet some 25m away. Following the trench scars in either direction to the next street in the direction of your arrow you come across other VM cabinets nearer to that street, unless you are connected to the same cabinet where the length of coax cable need would be around 250m at a minimum
If you check the photos ive already posted you’ll see the route of the surge..
Not proof of a surge, a surge would do much more damage.
I had a splitter on the coax. One going to the V6 box the other to the Modem.
The surge took a liking to the V6 box, not modem..
It is funny how it only selected one of the 2 virgin boxes to explode.
The surge went round the HDMI devices, not the power.
The V6 took the worst of it,, TV just died and smelt of fish, PC went crazy.
Funny that I blame the new smart meters
Lucky the Docsis signal is not so fussy as we would only have TV or broadband.