A Question... how does one take the 7 or 8 wire cable thru a bulkhead and into the station? I cannot see how a lightning strike hitting the mast or the yagi or beam or ??? on that mast is not going t
Chas: Polyphaser make a surge arrestor just for DC cables such as rotator control lines. You bolt this arrestor onto a grounded metallic plate such as your bulkhead (?) and connect all 7 or 8 control
I also prefer the Polyphaser products, but just to give you another alternative, see the ICE products: http://www.iceradioproducts.com/impulse2.html#4 And for those of us who still like to homebrew a
Or these from Array Solutions, which also include a capacitor across each MOV. http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/surge_arrestor.htm#top%20of%20page By the way, I use one of these at the top of t
Chas, K5FD also makes a 12 line surge suppressor that is also fused and has filters for RFI. http://k5fd.com/surge.html After the surge suppressor, the lines could simply come through a grommet in th
Assuming they work as well as the Polyphaser units made for rotor control wires -- which is what I used for my SteppIR control wires -- they would have been a far cheaper and perhaps more compact sol
Now there you go. Do your own rotor control protectors. All that is in the polyphaser unit is a large mov to ground on each line. 73 Gary K4FMX _______________________________________________ _______