[TowerTalk] control cables lightning protection

[Mark Robinson]

I put an MOV with a cap in parallel from each line to the tower ground. I 
have MOV's in the box at the bottom of the tower and also at my SPG box.

Depending on the control voltage I think that I had 19V and 56V MOV's



Mark N1UK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kostas Stamatis" <sv1dpi at otenet.gr>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, 24 June, 2011 1:15 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] control cables lightning protection


> Hello to all...
> I want to protect from lightning and static charges my rotator cable as a
> controller cable for a switch. I have seen some solutions in DXengineering
> but i would prefer a reliable homebrew solution. Anyone with some ideas?
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