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TBH if the lightening is so strong that it 'could' melt solder (more like
blast it!) nothing is going to stop it, the copper pipe will evaporate anyway. so i think it's a be immaterial! (pun intended!) just whilst on another old wives tale, don't forget if you do run around disconnecting coaxes to radio & things during an electrical storm....don't just reconnect them after it has passed by..you stand more chance of damaging things that way as the coax will be holding quite a nice charge, just waiting for you to discharge it through the radio when you reconnect! get a nice block of metal or dexion or WHY and mount the opposite gender connector to it and then short all centre & outer pins, then ground that to a water or radiator pipe (as long as it is metal!!) that's another good way of grounding the radio in the shack also, i found my radiator pipe had a better impedance than my earth stake!! mike G7BNF "PowerHouse Communications" wrote in message ... "Bruce Robertson" wrote in message ... ...I then cut it off about 6 inches above the ground and soldered bare solid copper wire (gauge? fattest home depot had) between the ground rod and antenna mast. I did not weather protect this soldered connection as the article suggested. (I may redo it at some point and then weather protect it). Just a thought here, but did you drill any holes in the pipe to insert the wire into before soldering? My thinking is that if the wire is just soldered to the outside of the pipe (without any other means of holding the wire attached to the pipe,) that should a lightning strike ever happen, the intense heat from the huge amount of electrical discharge may just melt the solder and allow the wire to become detached from the grounding pipe. This would effectively make the whole setup useless... Soldering is a good idea, however, there should be another means to insure that the wire remains attached (as long as possible) should the solder melt... PH --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.778 / Virus Database: 525 - Release Date: 15/10/2004 |
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