[TowerTalk] Grounding

[David Gilbert]

The fine print on every whole house surge protector I've been able to 
find specifically excludes lightning for coverage.  The coverage 
specifies only power line surges.  Are you aware of one that includes 
lightning?

Dave   AB7E



On 9/4/2019 8:44 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> GL rebuilding Keith.
>
> A tower lightning strike will cause an induced voltage spike in a 
> home's electrical system, even if nothing is connected to the tower.  
> I have had this occur while building a new tower and the control 
> cables and coax were not yet connected or even touching the tower. 
> Simply disconnecting the coax which many hams do is ineffective 
> lightning protection. There is a lot of valuable protection 
> information on this list. Assuming that you have a bunch of ground 
> rods and a SPG, I would suggest a good whole house surge protector.
>
> John KK9A