im trying to decide if it's safe to leave a window fan in a window during a thunder storm if it's ungrounded. it'll certainly have its own tiny little magnetic field going on but it has no reason to be any more polarized than anything else that could get struck? i think?
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@kirakira for some reason i thought foxdragon kira had a ziggy stardust face tat and this would be a fun backstory for that thing my brain made up. ~human kira cute though~
@hipsterelectron this is actually a really fun thing for you to have imagined for her 
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@kirakira a case ground is for internal shorts and the matter of lightning through the medium of the window seems like it may be a completely distinct question. my head hurts but i can't imagine a personal fan not specifically made of copper would tempt a single coulomb away from the lightningrods i assume your building has on the roof
@kirakira agree that tiny magnetic field is unlikely to do anything but is kind of cute to consider. it wants to be strong like lightning-kun
@kirakira i do not know whether a case ground has any specific behavior upon a massive imposed transient electron beam. i seem to recall the behavior of the case ground is not standardized and it may even be allowed to just Not Ground but idk. i believe that it is a safety feature so internally frayed wiring can be detected immediately and not Insta Kill The User
@kirakira the question of polarization is interesting. i assume this refers to the transient electric field charge distribution before/during/after a lightning event?
