A couple of times in my life I have been in a building during a lightning storm, as today, and I hear a "zap" arc-type noise during a close strike. Today I was in a garage during a storm and we had a
You are hearing the original lightning protector... the gap between wires in typical electrical outlets, lamp sockets, switches, etc is so small that they will arc over at just a couple thousand volt
Last year I experienced a lightning-induced pulse in a very close-up and personal way. Was tinkering with an antenna fed with ladder line. In the shack I was holding the (stripped) ends of the line i
At my QTH, Dave's response arrived before the original post to which he was replying. Maybe ESP? Bob - W3YY _______________________________________________ ___________________________________________
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:36:19 -0400
Interesting. Dave's response to this turned up 7 minutes before this original post. Around here I normally hear them as a "pop", or snap. Lightning a mile away can induce as much as a 1000 volts per
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You are hearing induced voltage arcing to a ground or perhaps differentially across the power line across the closest spacing in the wiring due to a much larger CURRENT produced in the lightening arc
Hi all, I've experienced something similar, 'cept it was winter, heavy blowing snow (20-30 mph winds). I went to connect an inverted L and happened to brush the feed line past the ground bar on the w
This is actually a very different phenomena from the induced charge from a local lightening strike. Charge build up due to wind and sand are due to electrostatic charge transfer identical to the "Van
Thanks, everyone, for your "enlightning" comments on the matter. I figured the noise was due to induced voltages on something, probably the wiring, but I never figured it would be that great to gener