This was exactly my point - unless you have a letter-perfect installation, leaving things connected and relying on a bunch of gas tubes is a recipe for disaster. As Guy suggested, disconnection won't always prevent damage, but remaining connected with less than professionally designed and installed bonding schemes is just inviting it.
73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 On 8/12/2010 12:50 PM, W8JI wrote: > The real problem is almost always that people pepper the station with > > protection devices but use poor wiring layouts or poor entrance schemes. > > 99% > > of the protection is in the layout and bonding, not in the protection > > devices we throw into the system. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
