Possible causes of "blown" electronics

[westom1]

[Oren]

[Boden]

Not uncommon. If homes in addition to yours were similarly impacted there was an open neutral, even if only intermittently, outside of your home. If just devices in your home failed then the open neutral was on your side of the meter and you are on the hook. Otherwise the power company should bear the burden of repairing all of it.

Boden

[Doug Miller]

Loose neutral on the incoming supply.

Exactly.

Exactly.

They'll check up to where they make the connections at the rain head (if it's an overhead entrance) or at their side of the meter base (underground entrance). Downstream from there is your responsibility, and they won't check it. The neutral could be loose on your side of the meter base, or at the lug in your main panel.

Much more likely, though, that any loose neutral problem that might exist is on the power company's side of things.

Don't think so.

Let's hope it stays that way.

[clare]

My dad lost most of his electronics and every light-bulb that was turned on when someone slid their car into the transformer vault about

2 houses down the street. The hydro company figured he gor a couple thousand volts for up ro a second before the fuse on the downline transformer let go.