Lightning....

sdkid

sdkid

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I am camping 50 miles from home and had weather moving in. I checked my cameras, and at home it was raining hard with some lightning... One bright flash and 4 of my cams went down. Three of them came back after a few minutes but one is still down. I was able to get into my Aruba switch, and it had a POE port fault on one port. ugh. So, a few hours later I checked again, and that cam was still down. I did a reboot of the switch--- and I guess the switch got hung up on an error or something and didn't finish the reboot, and now I can't get into anything. Yay.
 
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sdkid said:
I am camping 50 miles from home and had weather moving in. I checked my cameras, and at home it was raining hard with some lightning... One bright flash and 4 of my cams went down. Three of them came back after a few minutes but one is still down. I was able to get into my Aruba switch, and it had a POE port fault on one port. ugh. So, a few hours later I checked again, and that cam was still down. I did a reboot of the switch--- and I guess the switch got hung up on an error or something and didn't finish the reboot, and now I can't get into anything. Yay.
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Do you have ethernet surge protection and proper ground on your premises?
 
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Do you have ethernet surge protection and proper ground on your premises?
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No-- I have my POE switch, router, modem, and BI computer isolated behind a battery UPS / surge protector for power line surges. This is almost certainly lightning-EMP induced current in the cabling itself. Can that be mitigated??? Eleven years ago I lost 2 cams and a switch to a lightning surge like this one-- some Dahua 1.3mp bullets...
 
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sdkid said:
No-- I have my POE switch, router, modem, and BI computer isolated behind a battery UPS / surge protector for power line surges. This is almost certainly lightning-EMP induced current in the cabling itself. Can that be mitigated??? Eleven years ago I lost 2 cams and a switch to a lightning surge like this one-- some Dahua 1.3mp bullets...
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Wait...how many cameras are down now? 1 or 4? If its multiple, wouldn't suggest that something is not grounded correctly?
 
right after the lightning hit-- 4 cams went down. 3 of them rebooted and came back, but one did not. I think this issue is from current induced directly in the ethernet from lightning emp. I won't be able to check until I get back because my reboot of the switch killed my access to everything...
 
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