So then you would hold that dropping yo generator or running full time DC would be best?
> On Dec 27, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have always maintained that the majority of lightning damage comes in the > power line. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 27, 2020, at 6:46 AM, Matt Hoppes <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> So I was thinking. And I don’t know if this is a pointless idea or not. >> >> Lightning strikes happen because of potential differences. Besides the >> instances where equipment is blown up (direct strike) usually what I see is >> indirect strike where the Ethernet port of the radios just dries but there >> is no physical damage visible. >> >> Obviously the radio into the tower became a better path than the shielding >> of the cable into the ground system. >> >> Would there be any merit to running tower sites in generator and >> disconnecting them from the grid during severe storms? >> -- >> 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 -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
