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Re: Lightning at sea
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Oct 15, 22:34 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Oct 15, 22:34 -0400
Phil, I wasn't talking about the chain part, but about the Ohm's law part. I would expect the chain might end up being the path to ground in the absence of a better one, but agree it's not great. Fred On Oct 15, 2004, at 7:46 PM, Phil Camera wrote: > 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 >>> >> >
