[TowerTalk] Lightning protection and control wires

[DGB]

this is what I use with my SPG

http://www.comm-omni.com/polyweb/rct.htm

73 Dwight NS9I

On 10/3/2012 11:34 AM, Larry Loen wrote:
> I really don't understand, quite, how to protect myself from lightning
> coming down the various wires.  I'm sure this will be crushingly obvious to
> someone, but I'm clearly missing something.
>
> I'll have wires to coax switches and, of course, the rotor.
>
> I plan on doing all the grounding of the coax and even putting in one of
> those special gadgets that "blow out" a ball of whatever-that-substance-is
> for the non-ground signal on the coax.  I plan on putting in the grounding
> systems talked about in "Up the Tower" and generally around here.
>
> But, despite having "Up the Tower" I don't get how to really secure control
> lines (e.g. to the rotor) as far as lightning goes.
>
> Is there some gadget that does the job?
>
> Have I overlooked something?
>
> Do I just rely on the regular low impedance grounding system to take up
> most of the energy and hope not much flows on these wires?
>
>
>
>
> Larry Wo0Z
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