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Re: Lightning at sea
From: Phil Camera
Date: 2004 Oct 15, 18:46 -0500
From: Phil Camera
Date: 2004 Oct 15, 18:46 -0500
I won't argue as I'll admit I'm not an expert at that but I am fairly experienced at lightning grounding via my amateur radio background and trust me gang, wrapping an oxidized chain around the base of my tower and not providing a very low resistance path for the energy to follow toward ground is not the answer. Good luck to all, Phil Fred Hebard wrote: > Oops, sorry list, I meant to send the below to George privately. BTW, > he knows what he's talking about here. > > Fred > > On Oct 15, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Fred Hebard wrote: > >> On Oct 15, 2004, at 5:34 PM, George Huxtable wrote: >> >>> I have news for Phil Camera. Ohm's law applies only to those >>> conductors >>> that Ohm's law applies to. Try a filament lamp, a Zinc Oxide resistor, >>> a >>> semiconductor junction, a Zener diode, an electric arc. Ohm's law >>> applies >>> to none of these. Nor does it apply to a contact between two >>> oxide-corroded >>> metal surfaces. >>> >>> George. >>> >> >> Thanks for the news report George! I was wondering how you were going >> to handle that one! >> >> Fred >> >
