Lightning protection?
Anyone have lightning protection on their rig? If so what do you use and where is it mounted? We are the only metal object for miles lol.
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I'll avoid sarcasm in this reply -- lightning scares the hell out of me.
Lightning rods are the answer. And many people make a huge mistake thinking whatever rod they choose has to take the full brunt of a lightning strike.
A foot square rod of solid silver couldn't pass that much wattage.
A lightning rod aids in creating a path for pre-srike ionization. The bolt usually follows the ionization.
A pair of galvanized 1/2" pipe is stout enough to take wind loading. At the tip weld together a tip with six inch extensions. A spike if you will.
Base prep is to use aluminum wire six feet long arrayed away from the rig, buried a foot deep in soil which is not too hard to keep moist. Clamp the wires to the post but use a gob of grease to stop galvanic destruction.
DISCONNECT UTTERLY both line voltage and neutral hookup power during a lightning event. Pull the rig's plug from the shore power...
My casita is in an extremely dangerous lightning prone area of the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Several strikes have killed fishermen out in their boats and there have been beach deaths and inland deaths. Everyone takes lightning seriously. Around 2006, a bolt cleaved a ten feet at the base diameter parota tree alongside the highway. It serves as a grim reminder every trip to town.
If there is a hill or structure of any kind near you you can forget about the lightning rods. Every summer storm we get there is at least one simultaneous light and sound strike. Some of my chickens die every summer of fright. Not at all funny.
Lightning rods are the answer. And many people make a huge mistake thinking whatever rod they choose has to take the full brunt of a lightning strike.
A foot square rod of solid silver couldn't pass that much wattage.
A lightning rod aids in creating a path for pre-srike ionization. The bolt usually follows the ionization.
A pair of galvanized 1/2" pipe is stout enough to take wind loading. At the tip weld together a tip with six inch extensions. A spike if you will.
Base prep is to use aluminum wire six feet long arrayed away from the rig, buried a foot deep in soil which is not too hard to keep moist. Clamp the wires to the post but use a gob of grease to stop galvanic destruction.
DISCONNECT UTTERLY both line voltage and neutral hookup power during a lightning event. Pull the rig's plug from the shore power...
My casita is in an extremely dangerous lightning prone area of the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Several strikes have killed fishermen out in their boats and there have been beach deaths and inland deaths. Everyone takes lightning seriously. Around 2006, a bolt cleaved a ten feet at the base diameter parota tree alongside the highway. It serves as a grim reminder every trip to town.
If there is a hill or structure of any kind near you you can forget about the lightning rods. Every summer storm we get there is at least one simultaneous light and sound strike. Some of my chickens die every summer of fright. Not at all funny.
