Had a thunderous lightening flash the other evening that appears to have taken out couple of devices. One is a HQR-VCRX. This is connected to two devices used in a access gate system. It is located in the basement and connected to the gate equipment with a 250 run of 20 gauge solid copper wire. There are three functions that are connected. One is the gate opener, a momentary keypad button. The other two are toggling controlled from the same keypad. The momentary part still works. Neither of the toggling. The lights on the HQR-VCRX perform as expected, and I can hear the relays clicking as expected also. But the is no contact closure. I am thinking maybe onto isolators have been fried perhaps?
The other device is a RRD-6CL that is also controlled by another keypad. This device controls pole lights adjacent the gate equipment control box ( the control board for the gate was also fried by this lightening). So this is a direct burial 110 volt line that also runs from the house 250 feet or so to the end of the driveway. The RRD-6CL appears bricked. No lights, nothing on trying to reset it.
So does this seem consistent with lightening damage? This is the third time in 8 years that the gate control board has been fried, despite a robust grounding rod, and strapping the ground to all elements of the gate equipment.
This is the first time any of the Lutron gear seems to have been effected.
