Lightning Protection

Aluminum is not as good as copper but it was used for many years as the electrical wiring in many homes. It is still used in some feed lines to homes. You are as safe in your RV as you are in your stick home.

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Oh...that's really good to hear then. Thanks rgatijnet1

If you get hit by lighting, Its not going to make much difference either way.

Chances are if you stabilizers are down the more direct path will be to ground through them - or on the neutral on the power supply coming into the RV. Jacks up and the MH is pretty much on rubber.

Johno02 wrote:
If you get hit by lighting, Its not going to make much difference either way.

This is a fact. There is some thought that a metal cage about you might offer SOME protection but frankly the EMP is going to mess you up some.

Oh and I have many times heard about the rubber tires on a car. ... I usually have to pick myself up off the floor (And recover my breath) before I reply to those messages.. Why was I on the floor having breathing trouble breathing.. LAUGHING of course. I mean a bolt of lightning that jumps a mile high air gap is not going to even notice a few inches of rubber.

Still in a lightning storm I want to be indoors.. WHY. IT's likely raining out there. And last Thursday I got to play in the dang near freezing rain (Ok perhaps 40 F) and I was not really dressed for it..

Pretty good info here.

I'll bet that the chances of getting hit by a Egyptian truck driver having a heart attack on I-10 in Louisiana is probably 10 times greater than a lightning strike.

Consider unplugging from the pedestal during a lightning storm.
A beverage and a favorite analog pastime (cards or a book?) will get you through just fine.

wa8yxm wrote:

Johno02 wrote:
If you get hit by lighting, Its not going to make much difference either way.

This is a fact. There is some thought that a metal cage about you might offer SOME protection but frankly the EMP is going to mess you up some.

Oh and I have many times heard about the rubber tires on a car. ... I usually have to pick myself up off the floor (And recover my breath) before I reply to those messages.. Why was I on the floor having breathing trouble breathing.. LAUGHING of course. I mean a bolt of lightning that jumps a mile high air gap is not going to even notice a few inches of rubber.

Still in a lightning storm I want to be indoors.. WHY. IT's likely raining out there. And last Thursday I got to play in the dang near freezing rain (Ok perhaps 40 F) and I was not really dressed for it..

You stole my line! ;)

As far as the aluminum box around you, yes, it will protect you, personally just fine. This includes EMF, which a faraday cage blocks well.
Countless cars and airplanes are struck every day and the occupants suffer no harm.
We ran thousands of tests in aviation.