Skip - Lighting protection is science, not religion, and requires no "belief". Consider that tall buildings, towers, the electrical grid, and aircraft, among many other things, are routinely hit by l
actually.... you can have great grounding and still get this kind of damage if you don't equalize the incoming line voltage with ground at the entrance. most of this damage was probably from what is
Hmmm... took out normally rugged appliances. "Cook stove, dryer, etc." These have, or should have, only one path to ground, back through the power cabling. Sounds like the strike came in on the L1 an
On 7/11/13 5:53 AM, David Robbins wrote: actually.... you can have great grounding and still get this kind of damage if you don't equalize the incoming line voltage with ground at the entrance. most
A overhead power line to a building a mile away, though, with the other half of the loop being the ground between the buildings, and you've got a nice big loop. But also one where the wave propagatio
Author: "Mitchell, Dennis C" <dmitchell@alionscience.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:44:37 +0000
Re: Lightning - Damage & Detection Perhaps the best way to deal with potential lightning strikes is to Detect them as they approach... IF you had a Lightning Detector (also called Strike Finders in a
the even BETTER way is to detect them before they approach... example, I took a hit this spring that blew up some beverage transformers... it was the first and last stroke anyone heard out of the sto