speaking of problems....Thursday our house got a direct lightning hit....one of my ham radio antennas up at 54 feet or about 18 meters took a direct hit....before Thursday it was 24 feet tall fiberglass with a solid copper wire inside....after the hit, not so much....look at pictures to see what is left...
the lightning traveled down the antenna to the ground rod...so far all is well...butttt....the ground rod for the house electrical system is only 10 feet from the antenna ground rod.....the lightning passed from rod to rod & entered the house wiring...not so good....tripped 4 circuit breakers &
blew up a surge protector....we also lost 2 satellite receivers, the 48 inch flat-panel TV,both cordless telephones/answering systems, BluRay player, and our wifi router......other items plugged into same outlets did not suffer any damage....satellite TV & wifi back up finally.....
all antenna coaxes were grounded through coax switch & output coax to radios disconnected.....all radios & coax switch are interconnected to single-point ground via #4 multi-strand welding cables
it was very bright & LOUD !!!
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