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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Hmmm ... I was always told that lightening is the massive flow of electrons up to the positively charged storm clouds ... although it looks visually as if the bolt is traveling down from the clouds to the ground. Given that, the reasoning is that a passenger vehicle's non-conductive tires stop the flow of electrons up into the metal skin of a vehicle. Hence metal skinned passenger vehicles with rubber tires are supposedly pretty safe from being in the path of a bolt because electrons cannot get onto their metal skin so as to follow a path up into the sky.
If the above is what's going on, then it seems like a rubber tired RV - with no metal steps attached to it's frame reaching down to the ground, or no metal foot of a leveling jack connecting it's frame down to the ground, or no power cord plugged into a pedestal connecting the RV's frame to a power grid's ground - would be just about as safe from attracting a lightening strike as a common metal skinned rubber tired pasenger vehicle. :h
If the above is what's going on, then it seems like a rubber tired RV - with no metal steps attached to it's frame reaching down to the ground, or no metal foot of a leveling jack connecting it's frame down to the ground, or no power cord plugged into a pedestal connecting the RV's frame to a power grid's ground - would be just about as safe from attracting a lightening strike as a common metal skinned rubber tired pasenger vehicle. :h
