The fine print on every whole house surge protector I've been able to
find specifically excludes lightning for coverage. The coverage
specifies only power line surges. Are you aware of one that includes
lightning?
Dave AB7E
On 9/4/2019 8:44 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
GL rebuilding Keith.
A tower lightning strike will cause an induced voltage spike in a
home's electrical system, even if nothing is connected to the tower.
I have had this occur while building a new tower and the control
cables and coax were not yet connected or even touching the tower.
Simply disconnecting the coax which many hams do is ineffective
lightning protection. There is a lot of valuable protection
information on this list. Assuming that you have a bunch of ground
rods and a SPG, I would suggest a good whole house surge protector.
John KK9A
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