[CUWiN-Dev] Lighthning arresters

[David Young]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:43:48PM -0500, Kristjan Onu wrote:
> >Our new installation is much more permanent, but there is a little
> >work remaining---mainly sticking the new cable to the roof.
> 
> Are you still thinking about using a lightning arrester?

Yes, absolutely.

> I'm a bit confused. This picture shows a schematic of a gas discharge
> tube arrester:
> 
> http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/copyrighted_images/coax_lp_diagram.gif
> 
> It shows that a ground connection is necessary. On the roof of the
> IMC you pointed to a plastic cannister connected to Volo's equipment and
> said it was a lightning protector, but it had no obvious ground
> connection. I can't quite see how a lightning protector would work
> without a ground connection.

I don't remember pointing out a lightning protector on Volo's equipment.
Anyway, there isn't one up there.

Dave

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