Trying to make a warranty claim on a terminal strip from a lightening strike is almost a lost cause.
A friend of mine lost a room full of very expensive electronic test equipment do to a surge from a lightening strike miles away. He had every piece of equipment plugged into Tripp-Lite strips all around the room. There was not a cloud in the sky but you could hear lightening strikes way off in the distance. Then out of the blue. POW, he said it sounded as if someone had tossed a very large firecracker into the room. Then you had the smell of burnt electrical components.
He tried to make a claim with Tripp-Lite and was turned down over and over again on loop holes. He had every bill for every piece of equipment that was lost. After trying to fight it for months he just gave up and filed an insurance claim on his homeowners policy.
Funny thing is that in another room of the house he father had over ten thousand dollars of ham radio equipment that was not effected by the serge. Not one piece of electronic anywhere else in the house was effected. The only things that were lost were those items plugged into the Tripp-Lite strips.
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