Timeline for How can I protect equipment against a lightning strike?
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| Feb 26, 2014 at 14:33 | comment | added | Phil Frost - W8II | Just adding a discharge tube will do little to nothing to protect equipment. Adding a decent ground, depending on how it's done, might make things worse. The most usual "solution" is to ground the feedline and/or antenna mast, which creates two grounds: the mast ground, and the electrical service ground. A strike on the antenna or the power lines will cause high currents between these two grounds, through your equipment, breaking things. | |
| Oct 22, 2013 at 20:36 | history | answered | VU2NHW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |