Power Surge
 

Just a heads up to all my sewing buddies. We recently had a lightning strike on a local main power line. It caused a power surge throughout the entire community. Many had their computers and electronics "toasted". Some places literally had smoking and melted computers. Made me very grateful that I had surge protectors on all of my electronics, especially my sewing machines. But generally, once zapped, your surge protectors need to be replaced. So everything got unplugged until I went to the store yesterday and bought all new protectors.

Good advice. We had an electrician install a whole house surge suppressor. I don't think it is foolproof but is a help. He told us if it ever trips to call him right away to reset or replace I think he said. It was inexpensive. We also have the plug in ones too.

I always unplug my sewing machine & computer when we have lightning even though they are on plug-in surge protectors.

I unplug all my machines when I'm not using them. I mounted surge protectors on the walls so I can easily reach up and unplug them. I knew a couple people who had their computerized machines toasted during tropical storms

Quilter 53 - My kids live in Talkeetna. Do you know Tim and Sharla Rose? They own a trading store at the end of the main street near the river.

My sewing machine is always unplugged if I am not using it. If there is a storm in the area I unplug as many of my electronics as possible.

thanks for sharing!!! great advice!

Jim bought me one for the television in the bedroom and my sewing machine just this week.

You can go to a place like Best Buy and get a inexpensive power converter for your expensive machines. A dealer told me about them after I had to replace the power supply on my embroidery machine. He said it's not just surges that can damage machines but also when there is a dip. The converter has a battery backup and swithches when power is off, but also keeps power level. I think I only paid around 50 dollars for mine.

We use surge protectors too now. We had a tv once that was dead after a power surge. That's when we learned our lesson.

My house is also double grounded. Most aren't.

I always unplug my machine when I am done using it

We have the proctors but I always keep computers and my sewing machines unpluged when not in use.

I unplug even with surge protectors and a whole house protector. I wont take a chance especially since in Florida we had our condo hit and it fried our TV and TiVo.

I have 2 lightening rods outside and every time we get hit bl9ws out phone n modem. Now I run n unplug stuff and I have surge protectors lol

Same here. We get a lot of pop up thunder storms during the summer here in Maine and even though I have a rather pricey surge protector, I unplug when I'm not home.

Just another good :thumbup:reason to have a treadle on hand. I can sew and watch the storm (lightning storms and winds). Better thn most tv shows. :thumbup:

We learned years ago to unplug irons and machines when not using. I don't keep toasters, etc., plugged up either. I do leave my microwave plugged in, though.