Thread: Lightning and a RRS - Does not end well for the RRS systems

Originally Posted by Graeme

Perhaps there's no facility to turn it off.

It can be. There's a programme at home about Stobart Transport, the owner took delivery of a new RRS (painted to his own non-LR colour) and first thing he noted on camera was the dinger as he sat in it in the showroom for the programme. "Got to get that dinger switched off, it's already driving me crackers" he says. His comment a few days later was "it's cost me £500 but the daft dinger is now switched off". He'd had the thing remapped as well. William Stobart, lives local to my parents in a mammoth house with lots of toys.

Originally Posted by Mike_S

the owner took delivery of a new RRS

MY10 onwards uses a different CCF to earlier models.

Don't you just love electronic cars and their strange behaviours and propensity for instantaneous and catstrophic failures.

Originally Posted by sniegy

WR
Interesting reading that what you have that works & what doesn't work, an amazing natural occurance that we don't know too much about, beautiful to watch, deadly to be a part of.
Take care

i recently attended a job where the house had been struck by lightning.The fridge,washer & one indoor A/C out of six indoors & one outdoor,(a multi head system),was badly damaged,nothing else.
The six indoors & one outdoor are powered from one circuit.None were actually working during the incident,but all were powered up.I don't know what breakers tripped ,etc.
i replaced the PCB's in the indoor,& it was OK.The other damaged appliances were replaced.

I also remember attending a job many yer's ago when a residence was also hit by lightning.In this case all the lights were blown off the cieling,everything plugged in was destroyed,& also bits of bricks at low level were blown off the walls.

A tree was hit at my parents place in the early 80's.The gum was destroyed & it earthed onto the post for the extenderline,burning the paint.we were in the house about 5m away.The noise was unbelievable,& scared the living daylights out of us at the time.Not something you forget easily.

Power surges & cases where you drop a phase,or get low voltages do the same sort of thing,seem to affect some things & not others,for no apparent reason.

Now as for those ding dongs,the D2 has very few of them

But the work van has got em

I powered up the garden shredder that took the initial bolt of lightning and it has the scars to show it - runs fine.

Yet other things well away are still bung. I am trying to work out whether the power supply in the PC has blown or whether it is it and the motherboard. The hard drive is Ok as I have it connected to another computer that was not damaged but was on at the time (the PC was off) and on the same power circuit as the blown PC.

Garry

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Don't you just love electronic cars and their strange behaviours and propensity for instantaneous and catstrophic failures.

Yeah I do love them...

Never had electronics shut down any of my vehicles... Ever... Had some quirky behavior but no so stoppers.

But... Have had plenty of mechanical failures! Most of which required substantial work before proceeding!


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Originally Posted by Tombie

Yeah I do love them...

Never had electronics shut down any of my vehicles... Ever... Had some quirky behavior but no so stoppers.

But... Have had plenty of mechanical failures! Most of which required substantial work before proceeding!


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'Did I mention some great 4WDriving is just 5 minutes from home?'

All I can say to that is that you have been very bloody lucky.

I had my first car with electronic ignition some time in the 1970's.Replaced three modules in that one and all were instantaneous total failures except for one that died overnight whilst parked. Next electronic car had an integrated ignition and emission control system. Replaced possibly four or five of these in nine years and took to scouring wreckers for the replacements as the OEM price had crept up to over $600. Put a points distributor in this one in self defence. Next came a series of V8's with Kettering coil and points ignition, no problems. My current Falcon ute has had three distributors and modules, two modules on their own, a Smartlock box, several coils. I call it the two in one Falcon, the first and the last.

It screwed me again last week. Drove home and parked, next day no start. Checked the bulb and fuse in the interior light as this has held me up in the past. These Falcons wont start if no interior light as it is part of the Smartlock circuits. Not this time. Called RACQ so they could earn part of their annual subscription. Verdict- no spark, no injector pulse. On the tilt tray to the electronics wizard. Another burnt out coil.

This is why I bought a County-Isuzu. No electronics other than the CD-radio which, of course, doesn't work.

Nah Brian, I'd say you've been the opposite... Very UNlucky.

I've only attended a call out for 1 electrical issue and this was 'technically' mechanical - the spring on the points set snapped...


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