Get an industrial robust isolation transformer. For ten years I worked on French equipment where the power input was 230 volt. Because American power in industrial sites are 208 volts a step up isolation transformer was used at almost every site, that also had protected 125 volt outlets for the PC etc. Never had a problem. The internal surge circuitry may have burnt up but the equipment never suffered any breakdown due to power problems
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Gayle Dotts via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > I won't have radios at the beach 500 miles away but totally concerned > about the house/shack here in Houston. > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Gayle Dotts <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I’ve got a beach house in Gulf Shores Alabama. Last week it had a direct >> hit to the house by lightning, took out the refrigerator, 4 tv’s, phones, 4 >> surveillance cameras and much more. Luckily It had no radio gear or >> antennas there…which brings me to here… >> >> My NOW attempt to layer my radio shack for protection against lightning. >> Like unplug radio, power and cables, ground radio chassis. I’ve have heard >> an antenna doesn’t get hit as such until you ground it at which time it >> becomes a lightning rod and as such now attracts lightning, so don’t worry >> about the tower as much as the lines coming in. Is this correct? Sorry >> for being so chit-chatty guys but this is a real concern that got personal >> with the lightning. I don’t have much protection at all except a copper >> rod outside my window with the radio chassis grounded there. I guess I >> need to add more protection. I have watched you guys at field day just >> ground the line, I thought, coming off the antenna in to the radio area, >> was there more I didn't see? >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > >
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