I see that a coaxial line arrestor has a gas discharge tube between the center conductor and the coaxial shield. The other stuff, inductors, resistors, capacitors are important, but not interesting during a lightning strike. All of this stuff is in a thick conductive box.
This may sound like a dumb question, but think about it. How does the lightning get out? The walls are several skin depths thick. There seems to be a ground lug on the outside of the box. That would take care of current on the outside of the coaxial cable well enough. Wouldn't the voltage and current running between the center conductor and shield have to reflect back up the coax, and then come back down the outside of the cable to get to the ground lead? Michael, AB9GV _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
