-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: Why would you want to do that? Do you want a portion of the lightning strike to reach your house ground and be coupled throughout your house? Lightning d
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: When lightning is around, I disconnect all coax and rotator cables and I disconnect them at the base of the tower. I have connectors installed there just
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: In my case, I have connectors installed in all coax and rotator cables at the base of the tower and I disconnect them when lightning is around. There is
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: I disagree with all of that. See my other posts for an explanation. 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ ______________________
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: I'm not an electrician but I'm pretty sure that is not according to code. You should have four wires, not three, going from the house to the shack: Two h
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: Here's the "magic". If someone uses the neutral for ground and the neutral develops an open somewhere down the line, all of a sudden whatever was "ground
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: That's not what you said in an earlier post. Here's a quote from you: " I have a single service, which comes to the house, then is fed to the garage/apar
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: You have to be more descriptive when you say "3 wire feed". There are two kinds of 3 wire feed which are both legal: 1. 120 VAC with hot, neutral and gro
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: Anyone who digs up an obsolete copy of something to prove that he has the "right" to create a safety hazard has a larger problem than we can help with he
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: I find that when I am on top of my 80 foot tower I enjoy it so much I am actually reluctant to come down. Weird, huh? 73, Bill W6WRT ____________________
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: Unless you are momentarily dazed or distracted by some unexpected happening. Use your imagination. When I am on a tower I am always hooked on. Always. 73
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: Any fool can free climb, and some do. 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Towe
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: This thread may save a life someday. I recognize the survivor's grief but no one is forcing them to read it now or ever. This thread should continue unti
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: You don't need to run a wire from your rig to earth ground at all. All you need is to connect your rig to the "third wire" ground in your AC plug, which
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: Rather than read a 518 page document, perhaps you could quote the relevant parts? 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ ________
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: No, thanks. I don't do wild goose chases. You want me to read it, you ;quote it. 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ _________
I watched the video about Cadweld and read the info, but I'm still not convinced it is better than old fashioned ground rod clamps. Comments? 73, Bill W6WRT __________________________________________
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: Interesting. Thanks, roger. 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mail
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: Good question. The answer is that if Cadweld is so superior, why is in not mandatory in the NEC? Why are ground clamps allowed at all? They are a very co
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: First, I wouldn't worry about a few microns of corrosion, especially when lightning is concerned. A lightning bolt has already traveled thousands of feet