Imagine the voltage required to jump that gap and still have
120,000 amps. Could light small cities for days!
de KL7HF
At 07:11 PM 8/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Just downloaded a very interesting article titled "Learning to live with
>Lightning". According to this 50% of lightning strikes are more than
>18,000 amps at crest and 1% are over 120,000 amps! Guess it wouldn't
>hurt to get a few more ground rods & copper strap :)
>Steve KG8TX
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