Help Request POWER SURGE

[srijantje]

Anybody ever heard of a power surge through the earth cable?just happened to me,blew up my adapter which are not only very costly[mac] but unavailable where i am,bypassed my surge protection because it came in through earth,new one has to be shipped in from chandigarh by bus,running on battery power now,AAARRRGGGGHHHHH

[Mark]

I've never heard of that! So the power surge came through the ground to your house?

[karpackie]

you sure that wasn't your x

[srijantje]

yeah,really

no,it came through the green cable,you know ,+ - and earth,the earth pin was black

[karpackie]

oh yeah the socket job

[srijantje]

this is fucking serious shit,sets me back at least 100 euros

[karpackie]

i fucking know sj,it was a power surge that fucked my pc up man

[srijantje]

oh yeah forgot about that,well i got my new adapter,80 fucking euros,pretty good service though,got put on the bus last night and arrived 10 in the morning

[karpackie]

cool nice one

[Mark]

Yeah the ground pin was burned but that doesn't mean the surge came from the ground side- you see electricity flows from positive to negative so the culmination of a power surge will generally show up at the ground (because that's a short circuit when that much power reaches the ground without a justifiable load in between)

Either way I'm glad your up and running now.