WanMan
Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273
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Link Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:11 pm Post subject: Bad Weather Observation |
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I have DirecTV service and I am use to rain fade. This is not about rain fade.
During particularly warm, moist weather a condition arises where the clouds get the sky a turning greenish, winds pick up (sometimes violently), and then all hell breaks loose. Lots of water, a lot of inter/intra-cloud lightning, and to a lesser extent cloud to ground lightning.
No surprise, really, but I decided to unplug the HT, a couple of computers, and the plasma televisions, which includes disconnecting the sources and network cables to insure display isolation.
This was the third time in the past five years or so that I observed all of the DirecTV equipment come on. Anyone that has used DirecTV equipment knows that their remotes are not very good and they need to be pointed directly at the receivers to be of any use.
But in this case, the H23 and two HR21's all turned on at the same time and all by themselves. These are ungrounded devices so the idea of ground-surge is not applicable, let alone some sort of mythical wake-on-surge.
The only thing I can think of is either a static electric field building up in and around the home, or an electrical surge on the power line that affords these things to turn on. And it gets more interesting ...
One time I noticed that two computers setup with Logitech MX Revolution mice would turn on their mated computers, and these computers just happen to be identically built (Abit AB9 Pro motherboard, Corsair memory, WDC drives, etc.). And while the motherboards were configured for CTRL+1 as a turn-on feature, the wake on mouse was not enabled.
So, anyone got any urban legends to explain these observations? Is the slime in ghosts replete with static electricity broadcasting on the RF band the electronics can receive?
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