At 3:48 PM -0700 5/28/98, Steve Hurst wrote:
>My question is
>concerning running the rotor cables through drilled holes in a bulkhead.
>Does'nt this expose you to allowing lightning to enter your shack ?
>Would'nt a strike just come down the rotor cable and proceed into the rotor
>control box and then into the AC line ?
I have a 24X24" weatherproof box mounted on an outside wall containing my
single-point ground window. In that box I have all the necessary
Polyphaser protectors connected to that window protecting all coax runs,
all rotor and control cables, AC to the tower, etc.
To allow any cable to pass through the window without providing lightning
protection for it at that point is to realize only half the benefit of the
ground window.
73, Dick
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