slee95 said:
r4z0r84 is there any picture that you can show me so that i know what I'm looking for?
Most all damage has no visual indication. Nobody can make an honest suggestion without first defining what the incoming and the other outgoing electrical path was. Once you know that, then anyone can also say why you have that electrical spike inside the house. You had damage because the electrical spike was permitted inside. And because it found an excellent path to earth, destructively via your TV.
A lightning strike far down the street is a direct strike incoming to all your appliances and all your neighbor's appliances. Are all damaged? No. Once inside, it went hunting for the best path to earth. In your case, the TV.
Often, a damaged part is the outgoing path. Others use assumption to 'know' that damage was the incoming path.
Cable and telephone wires are required to already have best protection. AC electric only has protection if you properly earthed a 'whole house' protector. So a likely damage path was incoming via AC. Outgoing on parts most likely damaged (HDMI port, coax cable connection, etc).
Lightning is a microsecond event. High power and low energy. If anything can store that energy, then the same item would block or absorb surges. Nothing can block or absorb that microsecond current. Which also says why protectors too close to appliances also do not claim to protect from that type of surge.
AC batteries are easily created. Simply a DC battery and bridge rectifier. Same concepts also convert AC mains to DC voltages. And convert AM radio signals to audio signals. But no battery can absorb energy in microseconds.
