M1 Gold and yearly lightning problems

I have had my elk system for 5 years.  Had it professional installed because I didn't have the time to do it myself.  Every year  for the last three years I have had my board get fried by lightning. Yes I live in Fl.
 
 The crazy part is nothing else in my house has ever been affected. I have more electronics in this house than Best Buy ..... (automation controllers, RF to IR converters, 4 PC's,  half a dozen Network switches, two separate phone lines, 4 televisions, Cable to network streaming devices and the list goes on, and NONE of them ever has had a problem !! 
 
I am about to request another RMA from Elk but I want to ask the members if they can suggest anything beyond my listed remedies below. 
 
My first year replacement was obvious because the installer never installed a suppressor on the phone line. Phone line damage on the board. My replacement came with a phone line surge suppressor (Elk-952).
 
Last year after I got hit to another part of the board, so I placed the wall wort power supplies on a surge suppressor, and  early this year I upgraded my circuit panel and put a whole house surge suppressor
in the panel. 
 
Even after both those fixes, I got hit again this year.  I don't even know when because I had shut the system off while we were undergoing a remodel this summer. 
 
Any suggestions are appreciated as I am beyond frustrated.
 
 

I  think that you should consider that the problems are not caused by lightning. When I get stuck on a problem it often turns out to be that I am being stubborn and not looking at all the possibilities.
 
Mike.

Surge suppressors are not much good against nearby lightening strikes - just too much energy in such a strike.
 
I had a strike hit a tree and run down the tree splitting off the bark.
 
The loop of wire for the AC powered dog fence happened to pass near the tree.
 
The surge came into the garage via the dog fence wire, through the fence unit, into the AC line.
 
Across the garage, took out a couple of outlets, jumped through a wall-wart powering a small device with a network connection.
 
Then down the network connection through to the other end of the house taking out things along they way.
 
Lost several thousand dollars worth of gear DESPITE surge protectors all over the place.
 
 
I think the answer may be to put up a whole bunch of lightening rods... on your neighbors house.

Are your phone line and electrical box tied to separate grounds?  If so run a ground wire between them as thick as you can get. (6, 8ga).   That will give the surge a direct path between grounds and hopefully prevent it from going through your equipment.

Thanks guys I will attempt all your suggestions !
 
Well maybe most  ^_^
 
 

Do you have any of the alarm system wiring leaving the house (i.e. A detached garage)?