This discussion topic has been answered Discussion topic: protect from lightning

This message was authored by: johny1 · ‎19 Nov 2025

We had a bad storm the other day and my wife unpluged our sky box and asked if our dish is safe from lightning strike, How likley can this happen?

This message was authored by: Annie+UK · ‎19 Nov 2025

Lighning will usually hit the highest thing, ie trees, terestrial TV aerials etc... so less likely to hit a dish but not impossible

Also if you use surge protector extensions you usually don't need to unplug thing using the extensions

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This message was authored by: Annie+UK · ‎19 Nov 2025

Lighning will usually hit the highest thing, ie trees, terestrial TV aerials etc... so less likely to hit a dish but not impossible

Also if you use surge protector extensions you usually don't need to unplug thing using the extensions

I am Neurodivergent – FAQs: Sky Glass ❄ Sky Stream ❄ Sky Go ❄ Sky Plus

Posted on a MINISFORUM UM690L with Debian (Linux) using Firefox-esr

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