What to do in thunderstorms - PEA issues guidelines

[webfact]

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that the Provincial Electricity Authority had warned the public about thunderstorms and what to do and not to do.

 

Their advice according to an infographic was:

 

Avoid mobile phone usage

 

Don't shelter under trees

 

Take all plugs out of sockets

 

Find a safe place like in a car with all the windows and doors closed

 

If in a big building for safety don't stand near windows, doors or walls. 

 

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[Justgrazing]

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

Find a safe place like in a car with all the windows and doors closed

 

Bit of jeopardy involved if your out in the Etan truck then .. 

[Mr Meeseeks]

I'd avoid golf.

 

[holy cow cm]

I have over the years had a big screen and other items blown up throw lightning strikes here. Unplugging is a good idea for most things. Not sure but just replaced not even a year old refrigerator with a blown motor after a lighting storm a few weeks ago. 

[DaLa]

6 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

I'd avoid golf.

 

 

Especially holding the pin. I would thing we are safe in Bangkok. Stick to the streets and you'll never be above 2 metres.

[Bluespunk]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

If in a big building for safety don't stand near windows, doors or walls

Hmm, read this and checked it out. Surprised to see it is dangerous, not going to stop me though.
 

Love me a good thunderstorm, besides what’s life without a little risk. 

[KhunBENQ]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Avoid mobile phone usage

Please don't let my wife see that.

What the heck is the danger using a mobile phone while sitting at home/under the roof?

An ever recurring quarrel about it.

[Tarteso]

Hit twice...!Is this a bad Karma? ????

 

Edited May 1, 2021 by Tarteso

[salavan]

Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker (ELCB) is a protective device which breaks the circuit when small stray voltage is detected on the metal enclosure of electrical equipment to provide protection from electric shock.

During lightning, voltage can appear on metal enclosures because of the development of charge due to lightning leading to tripping of ELCB. Get an ELCB

[AgMech Cowboy]

3 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!! Light up the course!

[AgMech Cowboy]

1 hour ago, Tarteso said:

Hit twice...!Is this a bad Karma? ????

And still got up. WOW

[bluesofa]

Don't try flying a kite.

[Justgrazing]

2 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Don't try flying a kite.

 

Or you'll go blind ..

[snowgard]

3 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Please don't let my wife see that.

What the heck is the danger using a mobile phone while sitting at home/under the roof?

An ever recurring quarrel about it.

Nothing!!! But a lot of people project the old rules from landline phones to mobil phones. In the rest of the world the experts will tell you to USE ONLY MOBIL PHONES in a thunderstorm because they are safe.

Landline phones with overland cable are dangerous in thunderstorms.

[djayz]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Take all plugs out of sockets

Why bother? More times than not, as soon as the winds pick up here in rural Isan, we have a power cut (usually branches or falling trees breaking power cables). 

If I had a Baht for every blackout, I'd be a millionaire by now! 

Keep meaning to get a generator for the house, but it always slips my mind... 

[Sheryl]

5 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

I have over the years had a big screen and other items blown up throw lightning strikes here. Unplugging is a good idea for most things. Not sure but just replaced not even a year old refrigerator with a blown motor after a lighting storm a few weeks ago. 

 

Knock on wood I haven't had any appliances fried - but I have gone through 2 Leonic whole house surge protectors, both fried to a crisp (i.e. they did their job!) within a couple of years.  I highly recommend them.

 

I'm out near Khaoi Yai and we get epic  thunder and lightening.

 

 

[bluesofa]

14 minutes ago, djayz said:

Why bother? More times than not, as soon as the winds pick up here in rural Isan, we have a power cut (usually branches or falling trees breaking power cables). 

If I had a Baht for every blackout, I'd be a millionaire by now! 

Keep meaning to get a generator for the house, but it always slips my mind... 

If I had a Baht for every blackout since I started keep track in October 2013, I'd have 90 Baht (seriously).

 

[Nakdontree]

1 hour ago, salavan said:

due to lightning leading to tripping of ELCB.

That's not the job of an ELCB.

 

Lighning protection includes one or several Surge Protection Devices. If correctly dimensioned and installed, the Surge Protection Device trips before dangerously high voltage can appear on metal enclosures.

[holy cow cm]

2 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

 

Knock on wood I haven't had any appliances fried - but I have gone through 2 Leonic whole house surge protectors, both fried to a crisp (i.e. they did their job!) within a couple of years.  I highly recommend them.

 

I'm out near Khaoi Yai and we get epic  thunder and lightening.

 

 

What is the cost of the Leonic surge protectors? Fried is fried and we all know from what. 

[KhunBENQ]

1 hour ago, snowgard said:

Nothing!!! But a lot of people project the old rules from landline phones to mobil phones.

My opinion too. But who convinces my ladies ????

And if they find that PEA pamphlet: woe to me.

Edited May 1, 2021 by KhunBENQ

[Sheryl]

37 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

What is the cost of the Leonic surge protectors? Fried is fried and we all know from what. 

 

I have model SP LS-411C  cost 13,000 baht in 29016. Still OK (though some marks on it) - they take a fair amount of surges before they totally conk out.

 

I forget how long its predecessor lasted but it was something like 7-10 years before the many surges took their toll.

[BritManToo]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Take all plugs out of sockets

They forgot

1) cover all mirrors

2) hide all forks

 

I can still remember my gran running around the house hiding the forks and covering the mirrors.

[Susco]

5 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

I have over the years had a big screen and other items blown up throw lightning strikes here. Unplugging is a good idea for most things. Not sure but just replaced not even a year old refrigerator with a blown motor after a lighting storm a few weeks ago. 

 

I had similar issues a few years ago. Every lightning storm something would blow up, my internet router first.

 

At the third or fourth time, the damage was 70K baht. TV's - Android boxes - Marantz amplifier and a few other things, all gone in one go.

 

That is when I found out that my Docis internet provider had tied the coaxial cable to the steel grounding cable of the lightning arrester on the pole that holds my transformer.

 

 

 

 

[Mike k]

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

They forgot

1) cover all mirrors

2) hide all forks

 

I can still remember my gran running around the house hiding the forks and covering the mirrors.

I new a girl who's grandmother made them sit in the middle of the bed and be quiet 

[holy cow cm]

5 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

I have model SP LS-411C  cost 13,000 baht in 29016. Still OK (though some marks on it) - they take a fair amount of surges before they totally conk out.

 

I forget how long its predecessor lasted but it was something like 7-10 years before the many surges took their toll.

Thank you. 

[bobandyson]

10 hours ago, Tarteso said:

Hit twice...!Is this a bad Karma? ????

 

 

 

Sorry, but that video was proven to be a hoax many years ago.

Here's a video clip showing how it was done.

 

 

[ourdon]

12 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

I'd avoid golf.

 

Oh Hell no.  Just the opposite in fact.  I'd be standing in the fairway waving my one iron at the sky.

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Even God can't hit a one iron!

 

[Thujone]

13 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

I have over the years had a big screen and other items blown up throw lightning strikes here. Unplugging is a good idea for most things. Not sure but just replaced not even a year old refrigerator with a blown motor after a lighting storm a few weeks ago. 

Well you learn something every day.

I've never heard of anybody having stuff blown up during lightning strikes.

I've never heard of anybody unplugging during a storm.

 

Mme Thujone believes that if somebody says they have had good luck and something has never happened to them, then it will soon happen to them. It's a semi-mystical belief.

 

So I'd better put in an order for a new fridge...

[kimamey]

9 hours ago, djayz said:

Why bother? More times than not, as soon as the winds pick up here in rural Isan, we have a power cut (usually branches or falling trees breaking power cables). 

If I had a Baht for every blackout, I'd be a millionaire by now! 

Keep meaning to get a generator for the house, but it always slips my mind... 

I'm in Isaan as well and we seem to get voltage reductions now instead of cuts. You notice the lights dim and the aircon or fan slows down but the phone keeps charging at least for a while. Never seems to affect the nearby police man's house with the loud music though. It's better now but a few years back if it rained the internet stopped.

I don't know if it's true but I once heard that unplugging aerial or power cables doesn't help as there's enough power to jump any gap. It has jumped the gap to earth although it will have lost power.

[Blumpie]

It didn't say not to lick a flag pole so there's where I'll be.  Or licking an antenna on a rooftop - better!

Again, no mention of it!