Not happy with my turbine today as it has stopped after a probable lightning strike!

There is no visible damage but the brake has gone on and won't come off.

The phone line was obviously hit as the master socket has exploded. I'm left with a black square of previously white plastic and small fragments all over the room. On the blackened pieces of circuit board all the soldered connections are bright, presumably as they re-melted! The curtains are scorched but luckily did not catch fire.

Outside in the garden the suport post to a tree has been hit and the top foot or so has been blasted apart, I found one piece about 40 feet away. This strike has travelled into the tree roots on one side and blasted the turf away over an area about 2 feet by 5 feet.

I have a crack in the inner glass of one double glazing sealed unit, presumably from the sound of the blast.

The power circuits tripped out, I'm pretty sure because the phone socket was next to a power socket and this may have stopped the turbine, but it may well have been hit itself. It does have a big lightning conductor on it.

The turbine people will be coming out to investigate now that I have tried the obvious things to get it going again.

I'll post here again when it's resolved fully:)