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Posted By: Trapper Dahlgren

well might be get a new camper - 05/09/21 10:57 AM

went to get the camper clean up an ready for the summer , I plug it in and wife said no lights work , not good ,I start, working on lights and see blubs are burned out , all of them , then she say refrigerator wont come on , gas or electric , what heck mad , I started to work on refrigerator an she say air and furnace wont work , so I start to trouble shoot this thing , all outlets work , microwave works , battery is good , then she say microwave was not plug in during winter , i took panel off of the back of fridge an plug it direct to extension cord , fridge still don't work , I figure lighting must have struck close to trailer during storage and power surge the trailer, not one breaker is trip, not one fuse is bad , went to dealer shop and technician, thing same thing , he calls factory tech and them think same thing , now to see what Insurance does ?
Posted By: trapdog1

Re: well might be get a new camper - 05/09/21 11:01 AM

I've never heard of anything like that, but it is possible. I hope the insurance company treats you well!
Posted By: LDW

Re: well might be get a new camper - 05/09/21 12:13 PM

I've heard of that one other time, but the camper took a direct hit that time. Good luck with your insurance company. I'm sure they will total it.
Posted By: Scuba1

Re: well might be get a new camper - 05/09/21 12:44 PM

I have to replace all electronics on a couple of boats in the marina. They were next to each other when lightning struck and fried the lot. 20.000 bucks worth of damage. had it happen to my sailboat a few years ago as well while I was on board. It sure does get ones attention. The insurance should pay up for that though.
Posted By: loosegoose

Re: well might be get a new camper - 05/09/21 01:22 PM

I had a car get struck by lightning once. It does bizarre stuff. The engine ran for about 5 minutes after it was stuck, and then the injectors were stuck open. The radio worked, but there was no sound from the speakers. The instrument cluster went crazy too.
Posted By: K52

Re: well might be get a new camper - 05/09/21 01:38 PM

Had lightning come in the house on a phone line, jump from the box where the line came in across the foot f the bed and turn on the radio on a clock radio. Big loud bang and a ball of blue went across the foot of the bed, the phone line was on one side of the room and the clock radio was directly across from it. After it got hit you couldn’t turn the radio off.

There used to be a transformer on an electric poll down the road a little ways and it got hit many times by lightning. Whenever it got hit it would ring our phone one time, if you heard just one ring you knew the transformer got hit. The local lineman got real good at changing that one out.
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