[TowerTalk] Lightning Strikes

[Patrick Greenlee]

I read their web page info.  Short on verifiable fact.  Long on 
hyperbole.  Reads like snake oil.  I'd be pleased to be shown to be 
wrong as that would mean we had a good product available.

Comments?

Patrick        NJ5G


On 6/26/17 11:35 AM, w5prchuck at gmail.com wrote:
> I don’t see how a capacitor could possibly help anything…
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> Chuck W5PR
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> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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> From: Máximo EA1DDO_HK1H
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 11:04 AM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com; sawyered at earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning Strikes
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> Hi all,
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> I am not sure if all of you know the new lightning protection system, deployed some time ago in Spain.
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> Basically, they have created a lightning rod which is a big capacitor. This capacitor has one end to the air, and the other end to ground.
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> When a storm is over this device, the capacitor provides a small current from air to ground, discharging slowly the risk for a sudden strike.
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> At the end, the strike is not happening, it has been "discharged" before the strike.
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> They've called it PDCE or DDCE lightning system.
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> The original web site, in spanish, is: http://www.dinnteco.com/quees
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> I think there is a US version as well: http://www.dinntecous.com
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> It is in use in many places with very successful results.
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> 73, Maximo
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> http://www.dinnteco.com/images/producto/funciona.jpg
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> [http://www.dinnteco.com/images/producto/funciona.jpg]
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> De: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces at contesting.com> en nombre de Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net>
> Enviado: lunes, 26 de junio de 2017 14:19
> Para: towertalk at contesting.com
> Asunto: Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning Strikes
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> I forgot to add that one of the tower strikes was to a 10M EU antenna at
> 30ft.  Vaporized about 15ft of coax and just small remnants of the balun at
> the feed.  So much for the cone of protection..
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> Ed  N1UR
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> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:09:24 -0400
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> From: "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered at earthlink.net>
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> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
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> Subject: [TowerTalk] Lightning Strikes
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> I have 3 towers that are all about 30 ft taller than the surrounding trees.
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> There is one oak tree approaching the height within a 200 ft circle
> otherwise it's the tallest around.  They sit on a ridge with 180 drop off
> exposure from N to South on the east side.  Behind them on the West side are
> gently sloping climbing terrain that locally peaks about 250 ft higher than
> the towers.
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> I have 25 acres of land with beverages in all directions and antenna/cables
> covering about 6 acres (excluding the beverage footprint).
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> In 12 years, I have definitively recorded 2 strikes on the towers but
> probably 10 proximity strikes that have either been seen or created some
> kind of induced energy damage to switches.
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> Its part of the game.
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> Ed  N1UR
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