Winding the cable into a choke at the entrance to your house
(and possibly at the base of the tower) 'helps' to mimimize current.
Tom N4KG
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:31:11 -0600 Pete Goudreau <goudpj@mac.com> writes:
> After some research, including towertalk archive searches, it looks
> like the only protection units out there for control and rotator
> cables are shunt types - Polyphaser and I.C.E. come to mind. While
> researching the topic, there also seems to be a goodly number of
> stories of lightning surges getting past exploding MOVs in said
> protectors and blowing up most of the equipment in the shack.
>
> Not being much of a fan of MOVs in the first place, I figured there
> had to be some series type protectors out there somewhere but I'm
> not
> finding them at all. Design is relatively easy but extremely
> difficult to test correctly.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions as to the safest way to keep the lines
> connected but well suppressed?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Pete, AD5HD (ex-WB5RKC)
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