Effects of lightning
This happened a couple of days ago.
Got home from work and the girls told me that lightning struck very close to the house. They said they saw a very white and bright light from the living room window.
Everything seemed ok. The next day, I noticed that the camper shore power was off. Started checking and a gfci plug for the storage shed was tripped and couldn't be reset. I then saw the electric fence controller laying on the ground. When I picked it up I noticed that it was broken and when I turned it over, it was burned to a crisp.
The only thing I can think of is that lightning struck the fence and backfed into the controller burning it up, knocking it off the wall and destroying the gfci. The fence does have a 4' ground rod installed right outside the controller location.
Electricity...got to love it... but definitely respect it.
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