[TowerTalk] Lightning protection and control wires

[Larry Loen]

Thanks to all.

This is the sort of stuff I'm looking for; happy if you know of something
else, too.

I am looking to operate remotely at some point, so this sort of MOV surge
protection looks like part of the cost of that dream.


Larry Wo0Z


On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, <john at kk9a.com> wrote:

> Array Solutions makes a nice protector.
> http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/surge_arrestor.htm
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> 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
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> 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?
>
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>
> Larry Wo0Z
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