Lightning can travel long distances at the surface of the earth. When it encounters a conductor such as a fence or a grounded satellite dish cable buried (grounded on both ends) it takes the easy path instead. The recommendation was to ground the satellite dish only on on one end, I believe the satellite end. I am uncertain how this would play out on a strike, with the equipment grounded somewhat in the house, but one end or the other was the rule, to not give a good grounded path to bypass the relatively poor conductor (the dirt) . Exact info is easy to find on the web, I looked when my switch got hit.
.02 CBrown &Stoker -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Bowser Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:22 PM To: Miata Power List Subject: Re: NPC: Having problems back feeding my house with a generator Lightning often strikes the underground conductors connected to submersible water pumps in wells. According to the NDSU website "Lightning hits on wells with submersible pumps is a leading cause of pump failures. Ask a well driller or pump installer about it. Bill Bowser Cincinnati Ian McCloghrie wrote: On Sep 3, 2008 pm wrote: someone recently told me that underground cables (of all sorts), get "hit" by lightening more often because they are surrounded by "ground"...is this true? AFAIK, the only thing that hits underground cables is a backhoe. :) --Ian _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
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