Sounds exactly like an "air terminal" / lightning rod / static cat plus an incredible amount of hype. So yes, virtually all commercial towers have an air terminal to dissipate static charge and discourage an actual lightning strike. Plus a heavy gauge down wire.
It takes about 2 seconds looking at their web page to see this is 99% snake oil. It's the QVC cubic zirconium of lightning rods. I don't know if a static cat actually works better than a simple pointed rod (air terminal), but at least there are some physics based reasons to believe that a bunch of pointy things might work better than one pointy thing. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 10:22 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Active Lightning Suppressor - Snake Oil, or Science? I had a conversation with another tower owner tonight regarding active lightning suppressing. https://www.preventlightning.com/ The theory sounds good, and I've seen similar things installed on at least one other tower. My question -- does it actually work? And if so, why is it not standard fare on towers? If I'm putting in a 160,000 commercial tower, why wouldn't one of these things just go on top of it? Thoughts? Chuck? -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
