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Re: GPS Out but GLONASS O.K.
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Jul 19, 19:13 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Jul 19, 19:13 +0100
>Richard: > >I realize that the voltage involved in lightening strikes is >extremely high, however re ship's electronics being knocked out by >one such, couldn't the electronics be grounded or otherwise >protected, or does the voltage involved preclude such attention? > >Alan One of Murphy's laws goes: "Any device whose purpose is to protect a transistor from blowing will itself be protected by the transistor blowing first." In my experience, I have found the law to be invariably true...... unfortunately. Geoffrey