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I'm not sure, but after a power outage at my house, I tried to resync the node and it showed no funds. I used the seed words to do a recovery on the node and got an error. It was over a year ago. I still have the hardware and the login with seed words but haven't been able to recover any sats.
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Kristaps K. 2y ago

Seed words are backup for onchain funds, not lightning channels. For channels you need static channel backup to force close in this scenario. Or wait for other nodes to force close and not cheat on you. Then funds return to onchain wallet.

When running lightning node, UPS and disk mirroring is recommended.

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chancellor 2y ago

Yeah sorry for the confusion, I was running a Bitcoin core node and a Lightning node. I'm not sure what happened to the funds on the lightning node, but I think I had too few channels and got force closed on. I got frustrated with it. I'm not super tech savvy.