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Old 08-06-2017, 12:06 PM
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It appears that both our pool controls and/or pump and irrigation system took a direct hit tonight. We'll check more in the morning but the breaker for the irrigation system was not tripped. Not sure whether to just start with an electrician for the irrigation system? Will call T&D for the pool. Suggestions? We're happy that our AC is working.

We have twice had close lightning strikes that have shut down our pool controls. Both times the T&D tech was great and quickly determined that the master board shorted out. We were equally fortunate to have the boards replaced at no cost by the manufacturer otherwise we would have been out about $700 for each board.

Seeing you are in Amelia we did notice a number of Fire Dept responses to Amelia between 8:30pm and about 9:15pm last night. Could have been quite a few lightning related incidents in that storm.