dpack
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lightning conductorsim on top of a tower
we do get hit
a metal thief has had about a foot from the lower end of two out of three
i am in a thunder cloud right now
should i worry ?
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vegplot
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Lighting hits tower, tower collapses you fall to ground in clound of rubble. Could be painful.
If lightning can jump severla hundred feet from ground to cloud then a foot ot two of conducto isn't going to prevent quite a large charge from crossing the gap. Should make your hair stand on end.
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dpack
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umm hair 
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RichardW
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The conductor is to save the tower (and other items in the area)not you.
Richard
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dpack
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theres comforting
1/3 to earth is probably ok
better than sitting on the rope in the rain
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vegplot
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Is this a dream or have you got wireless?
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dpack
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im wired up to cable and indoors ,i have done sit on the rope in rain in other places
at the momenti am in in the bottom end of a thunderhead running over the hills and heading east down the valley
awesome rain and my whiskers are extra fluffed
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dpack
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that was an interesting half hour
in one and two air bridges i put my trust
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derbyshiredowser
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I did lightening protection as part of my job and we had vast amounts of documentation showing that a strike on a building actually has a ball like effect and the strike rolls down to the ground jumping the last bit of the conductor. At this point in time I can't remember how the calculation was done with regards to the ball diameter, you should be Ok theoretically .
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dpack
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im in a cloud again and well ...
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| derbyshiredowser wrote: | | I did lightening protection as part of my job and we had vast amounts of documentation showing that a strike on a building actually has a ball like effect and the strike rolls down to the ground jumping the last bit of the conductor. At this point in time I can't remember how the calculation was done with regards to the ball diameter, you should be Ok theoretically . |
Any takers to test the theory?
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derbyshiredowser
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Over a period of years we renewed the overhead telephone feed to a Peak District vicar six times all due to severe lightening strikes. What I thought was funny that he was annoyed at us for the faults and not his boss.
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dpack
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out of the cloud again
seriously is 1 out of 3 enough for lightening conductors
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Jamanda
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I don't know. but I like a good storm. They have better ones in Yorkshire.
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