[TowerTalk] Lightning protection and control wires

[Mike]

Make SURE the terminal posts are oriented down if tower mounted (exposed,
not in a Hofmann box) as the local roosting bird guano will cause fits with
the rotor controller! 
The insides will corrode anyways with a whitish powder funk from
condensation, ICE or AR...maybe a new OOTB unit sprayed internally with a
conformal coating will help? Weep holes help, but things inside the box get
funky...

Mike, K4EAR

> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> john at kk9a.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 1:31 PM
> To: TOWERTALK at contesting.com
> Cc: lwloen at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning protection and control wires
> 
> Array Solutions makes a nice protector.
> http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/surge_arrestor.htm
> 
> 
> To:	TOWERTALK at contesting.com
> Subject:[TowerTalk] Lightning protection and control wires
> From:	 Larry Loen <lwloen at gmail.com>
> Date:	 Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:34:59 -0700
> 
> 
> 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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