Fawken
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Cone of silence? Right?
Storm scare....I need some thoughts/opinions
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Cone of silence? Right?
TCJatko
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Anybody have opinions on lightning rods? Good, bad, a waste of money? I've always thought they had some merit in that they might allow some of the static charge to dissipate. Of course, there are few systems that can stand a direct strike.
kcflhrc
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I think if lightning rods were of any use we would still see them used today. The fact still remains that lightning and electricity will take the least resistant path to ground. That's all I have to add.
Look here
Lightning Rod - HowStuffWorks
Look here
Lightning Rod - HowStuffWorks
dmccarty
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Lightning rods do not reduce the chance of getting hit by lightning but create a safer path for the lightning to take if hit. The buildings in my work complex is covered with lightning rods every few yards around the edge of the roofs. Very thick cable connect the rods.
This link, Request Rejected, is about protecting boats from lightning but the principals are the same. The person that owns the website and company is a lightning researcher at UF.
Lightning strikes on a boat is a much bigger concern than a house. People get killed on boats by lightning strikes. Strikes can take out the boat engine and all electronics which could lead to the loss of the boat and fiberglass boats can be sunk out right by a lightning bolt. Multihull boats are more prone to lightning strikes as well.
Later,
Dan
This link, Request Rejected, is about protecting boats from lightning but the principals are the same. The person that owns the website and company is a lightning researcher at UF.
Lightning strikes on a boat is a much bigger concern than a house. People get killed on boats by lightning strikes. Strikes can take out the boat engine and all electronics which could lead to the loss of the boat and fiberglass boats can be sunk out right by a lightning bolt. Multihull boats are more prone to lightning strikes as well.
Later,
Dan
kcflhrc
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True about boats, I don't deny that. However, common sense needs to kick in also, get the **** off of the water. If you can see a lightning strike then you are at risk.
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dmccarty
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It is true about boats and also structures.
Sail boats can't out run thunderstorms. Pray tell how will they "get the **** off of the water" in time? Me thinks you are thing of high speed planning boats not slower moving boats, some of which cross oceans, and there is no way for them to get off the water. Land could be a week or two away. Thus this is a MUCH bigger concern for boats because a lightning strike can disable and flat out sink some boats. The posted link will apply to structures and boats.
In fact, last summer a young man was killed on his sail boat in the FLA Keys. A thunder storm popped up and he was trying to get back to the dock when his boat was almost certainly hit by a lightning bolt. Another boat saw his sail boat sinking, called in May Day and went to assist the sinking boat, but the man was not seen. Divers eventually found the sunken sail boat and the young man's remains were inside. The best answer to what killed the man and sunk the boat was lightning.
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Dan
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General Lee
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Just a little update....My satellite TV issue was the splitter box outside. It most certainly got fried by the lightening. Once it was replaced, Whola TV again.
Fawken
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Thanks for the update. We often give advice here and are left to wonder, "Well, I guess old so and so got that tractor running and went off happily mowing, plowing, and grading while giddily posting selfies on facebook. Or....our advice got him so discouraged he gave up tractors altogether."
But seriously DirecTV is the number one source of lightning damage for people who do not have cable. They don't pay their installers enough to properly ground AND BOND the system, but it should be bonded just like phone and CATV service.
But seriously DirecTV is the number one source of lightning damage for people who do not have cable. They don't pay their installers enough to properly ground AND BOND the system, but it should be bonded just like phone and CATV service.
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General Lee
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That splitter appears to be grounded. Its tied in with the other phone stuff.