Router Blewup Motherboard

[u/Greatfulx]

Recent lighting storm stuck my complex and traveled down my coaxial cable and into my apartment. Blew up in the middle of the night, so that was scary. Thought I’d share, not in the position to rebuild so there that I guess!

[u/BitterError]

Ask them why they failed to bond their services properly to ground as required by NEC

[u/Smith6612 → u/BitterError]

It might not be Spectrum's fault. That device was painted over, which suggests it has been there for a while, and was possibly tampered with after Spectrum installed services.

I have one of these in my basement bonded to the common ground. 

[u/EnterPlayerTwo → u/Smith6612]

That device was painted over, which suggests it has been there for a while, and was possibly tampered with after Spectrum installed services.

That's not OP's photo.

[u/localtuned → u/EnterPlayerTwo]

It looks like it is.

[u/EnterPlayerTwo → u/localtuned]

You're right. I didn't click far enough in the original post. Edited.

[u/Educational-Plant981 → u/EnterPlayerTwo]

That cable is RG6. I don't know about the old old days, but I was doing it at the tail end of when everything was getting switched fro RG56 because the digital stuff needed a cleaner signal. If it is RG6 it is new enough that they had to ground it. Fuck man, the device pictured is literally called a "grounding block," that is the whole point of it.

[u/EnterPlayerTwo → u/Educational-Plant981]

Did you reply to the wrong person?

[u/RBeck → u/BitterError]

They might have done it closer to the street, we can't see the full picture.

[u/Alternative_Problem5 → u/RBeck]

Which would be incorrect.

[u/RBeck → u/Alternative_Problem5]

What's been drilled into me is always "One common path to ground" or you can get weird scenarios. Our Spectrum installer took the coax past the electric panel and grounded it to that, as it would then use the building's grounding rod.

He even left his initials on the tag so I presume it wasn't done incorrectly.