Ok, not sure if i really have a question here as i pretty sure what happened..
guess I am just looking for a confirmation before filing with insurance company.
(Plus give a WARNING to all those that like video editing during thunderstorms!)
My house?/Cable Tv line? got hit by lighting the other week (heard a loud crash and some snap-crackle-pop in the walls)
My system was configured/hooked up for previewing on TV monitor - as follows:
Computer <-> [firewire] <-> Video Camera <-> [RCA cables] <-> Video In RCA on VCR <-> [Coxial Out] <-> TV/preview monitor
**note: VCR's coxial input was hooked into Cable TV line
Now, I wasn't actually previewing at the time (was watching the TV, so camera was OFF - but VCR was ON and I was using it as channel tuner - computer was also ON. (All cables where connected as described above)
After the strike - TV went blue screen (power did not go out)
I am immeditaltey turned everything off.
After powering back up - I could no longer tune channels via the VCR.
The TV (preview monitor) however, still worked fine and i could change channels
TV in other room (which was off) could also NOT tune in any channels/signals when i tried.
My Conclusion, is that the lighting came in through the Cable TV line. Fryed the tuner? in my VCR and the tuner in my other TV. My preview montior/TV was spared the same fate because the VCR must have absorbed the charge?
Here's what really sucks (and thing i am not sure off as i don't have a schematic for my VCR wiring) - My video camera (which was connected to the RCA- in of the VCR) also seems to be fried. I can no longer get a signal from the RCA inputs on the camera to display on viewfinder (everything else still works fine on camera)
EVEN worse.. it appears the power spike proceed through my camera via firewire and into my firewire PCI card. Win Control panels displays the device is no longer working.
Is this possible? Could the power spike gone from cable tv wire, through VCR, out through RCA inputs, through camera, through firewire and ended up zapping out my firewire card??
Only thing i can think of since EVERYthing was working fine before the storm.
Doh!
Any electrical engineers in the house care to comment?
thanks!
guess I am just looking for a confirmation before filing with insurance company.
(Plus give a WARNING to all those that like video editing during thunderstorms!)
My house?/Cable Tv line? got hit by lighting the other week (heard a loud crash and some snap-crackle-pop in the walls)
My system was configured/hooked up for previewing on TV monitor - as follows:
Computer <-> [firewire] <-> Video Camera <-> [RCA cables] <-> Video In RCA on VCR <-> [Coxial Out] <-> TV/preview monitor
**note: VCR's coxial input was hooked into Cable TV line
Now, I wasn't actually previewing at the time (was watching the TV, so camera was OFF - but VCR was ON and I was using it as channel tuner - computer was also ON. (All cables where connected as described above)
After the strike - TV went blue screen (power did not go out)
I am immeditaltey turned everything off.
After powering back up - I could no longer tune channels via the VCR.
The TV (preview monitor) however, still worked fine and i could change channels
TV in other room (which was off) could also NOT tune in any channels/signals when i tried.
My Conclusion, is that the lighting came in through the Cable TV line. Fryed the tuner? in my VCR and the tuner in my other TV. My preview montior/TV was spared the same fate because the VCR must have absorbed the charge?
Here's what really sucks (and thing i am not sure off as i don't have a schematic for my VCR wiring) - My video camera (which was connected to the RCA- in of the VCR) also seems to be fried. I can no longer get a signal from the RCA inputs on the camera to display on viewfinder (everything else still works fine on camera)
EVEN worse.. it appears the power spike proceed through my camera via firewire and into my firewire PCI card. Win Control panels displays the device is no longer working.
Is this possible? Could the power spike gone from cable tv wire, through VCR, out through RCA inputs, through camera, through firewire and ended up zapping out my firewire card??
Only thing i can think of since EVERYthing was working fine before the storm.
Doh!
Any electrical engineers in the house care to comment?
thanks!