Below is a picture of part of my parents modem.
You can see part of the resistor's insulation has been blown off and some burning above that area.
The culprit was a lightning strike that took out their NTL (only fixed 5 days later but that's not really surprising considering the company!!) line and this modem. Luckily the rest of the PC seems OK. I'm surprised it didn't fry anything else!
It's well worth having a surge protector! Luckily this will cost less than a tenner to fix. Could have easily run into several hundred quid.
2 lessons to be learnt.
1. Get a surge protector.
2. Avoid NTL.
You can see part of the resistor's insulation has been blown off and some burning above that area.
The culprit was a lightning strike that took out their NTL (only fixed 5 days later but that's not really surprising considering the company!!) line and this modem. Luckily the rest of the PC seems OK. I'm surprised it didn't fry anything else!
It's well worth having a surge protector! Luckily this will cost less than a tenner to fix. Could have easily run into several hundred quid.
2 lessons to be learnt.
1. Get a surge protector.
2. Avoid NTL.
