<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Lightning struck my shop while I was in the office in the house next to the shop. I had just finished the shop and nothing was in it except a halogen light stand and some tools and materials as I was finishing up some small details ; preparing to move everything in.<div><br></div><div>It did two things. First was, it tripped a GFCI receptacle in the shop You would expect that right? Except it was the courtesy GFCI receptacle on the halogen light stand (not part of the building circuit) and that stand was NOT plugged in at all. Figured that out the next day when I tried to plug in a drill to the light stand. The next thing it did was to turn on my flatbed scanner - like I had hit the button on the front to take a scan. It took a very nice scan of an empty bed. By the way it was so close to me all I heard was a concussion, not really a thunder clap and all I saw was blue light around me. Pretty spooky.<div><br></div><div>If anyone wants proof, I will take a picture of the burn mark where the strike must’ve hit the peak of the roof and ran in on a flood light to ground. It left a burn mark on the vinyl soffit as it traveled from the gutter across the soffit to the flood light. It is there to this day. It’s also the only flood light whose base has rusted. </div><div><br></div><div>So yes - inductive current was generated in two devices in the only lightning strike I was involved it. So that’s a real thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Spencer<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 13, 2021, at 7:30 PM, Steve Offiler <soffiler@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Thx Cecil, and Jim B as well... pointing out that lightning can induce current in solenoids. I was going with more of a melted insulation/shorting hypothesis, but I’m equally inclined to believe the induction hypothesis. <div><br></div><div>SO<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 13, 2021, at 6:03 PM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden@copper.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>Lightning struck a light pole near my Arctic 366 ATV and stuck
the winch relay pulling the cable so tight on the drum it had to
be cut out, and ran the battery down and 2 weeks later the battery
had to be replaced it was only 3 months old.. Lightning will do
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If it was a lightning strike, there should be some evidence of
lightning hitting the tractor. The starter wire should also show a
short that allowed the starter to engage. Also, if the starter was
engaged due to a short, I would imagine that it was engaged all
the time the engine was running and is possibly burned out from
being engaged for so long.
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<div> I had the H take off on me once when I tried to do a start
and realized that the battery was dead. I connected the jumper
cables before before putting it in neutral and as soon as I made
the last connection, off it went. Had to jump on while it
started heading for the pond. Turns out that I left the kill
switch off from the previous start attempt and the starter
switch had also stuck in the closed position from the previous
start attempt. So when I made the last jumper cable connection,
the starter kicked in and off it went. Didn’t realize the
starter switch was stuck in the on position until I made the
next jumper cable connection, this time in neutral with the kill
switch on, and heard the starter engage and run. So it is
possible for a tractor to take off if it’s in gear with the kill
switch off, and the starter is somehow engaged.
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On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, Stephen Offiler <<a href="mailto:soffiler@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">soffiler@gmail.com</a>>
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is available to the general public, whether you have a
Facebook account or not...
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<div>Not MY tractor. It's on my Facebook page because I'm
sharing it. You can read commentary from the owner,
Lapsley Orchard, and you can also see what I came up
with. I am really curious to hear input from ATIS
members.</div>
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