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Whole household powerline surge protectors are primarily protections for spikes coming IN on the power feed to your house, say from down the street on a pole, etc. A direct hit on a house (after the protector) creates tremendous electric fields that can induce huge spike current in the wires on the consumer side of the protector and take out any PN type solid state junction in most devices. If you use surge protectors then they are probably most effective close to the electronic item being protected.....Glad everyone is okay. That is why I was told to use surge protectors
Correct. The wiring in your home (even after a whole house surge protector) is nothing but a massive antenna that is subjected to a massive electric field created by lightning if it strikes nearby. The current spikes induced in the wiring can still take out home electronics despite the mains protector..For those suggesting a whole house surge: Those work when the source of surge power is the main line. When it's a branch circuit, I don't think the whole house surge protectors do any good. In this case, the strike hit the circuit(s) in the garage, which share ground and neutral with all of the other circuits in the house. Somewhere, the power jumped to the ethernet cables, which fried a lot of electronic gear.