During a recent lightning storm, lightning either hit our auto bay or got very close because we found the gantry of our Water Wizard going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth down the rails to where we had a hard time stopping it since it had really been "shocked silly!" 
Do you guys do anything to protect your automatics from damage due to electrical surges from lightning? I know we have a real nice CyberPower battery backup and surge protector hooked up to our office PC to protect it, but is there something you can do to protect your expensive auto bay carwash equipment from damage as can happen if you're unlucky enough to get "surged"? (we've been having intermittent problems w/ this particular automatic for weeks now ever since it got "frazzled" from that bad surge so we replace components weekly as we see necessary but the problems that clue us in to there even being a problem happen so intermittently due to "weakened components" that are not so obvious at first.) And if possible, I'd like to better protect our two automatics from such damage happening again if something can be done that I've not thought of yet? (wouldn't switching off the circuit breakers to both automatics be a pain during every storm since many times we all have customers who want to use the automatic during a rainstorm anyhow, so you can't really shut off your 24/7 automatics...just thinking out loud now...Happy 4th of July!)
Thanks. - Carl
Do you guys do anything to protect your automatics from damage due to electrical surges from lightning? I know we have a real nice CyberPower battery backup and surge protector hooked up to our office PC to protect it, but is there something you can do to protect your expensive auto bay carwash equipment from damage as can happen if you're unlucky enough to get "surged"? (we've been having intermittent problems w/ this particular automatic for weeks now ever since it got "frazzled" from that bad surge so we replace components weekly as we see necessary but the problems that clue us in to there even being a problem happen so intermittently due to "weakened components" that are not so obvious at first.) And if possible, I'd like to better protect our two automatics from such damage happening again if something can be done that I've not thought of yet? (wouldn't switching off the circuit breakers to both automatics be a pain during every storm since many times we all have customers who want to use the automatic during a rainstorm anyhow, so you can't really shut off your 24/7 automatics...just thinking out loud now...Happy 4th of July!)
Thanks. - Carl
