[Towertalk] rotator cable lightning protection

[n4kg@juno.com]

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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