There are some decent units made by other companies than PolyPhaser.
I.C.E. is one that comes to mind.
However, your real expense isn't with the feedline protection. Keep in
mind that you will need to have powerline protection and a single-point
ground system. The grounding grid will likely cost you more than the
lightning arrestors since you are in Florida - land of "tough to get
good ground." You'll need lots of ground rods and lots of large copper
ground wire to construct a ground grid. This all needs to be bonded to
phone and power grounds too.
There's way more to it than simply putting a lightning arrestor on your
coax.
PolyPhaser wrote a book on it. Start looking for this information.
Without doing it right, forget the lightning arrestor on the coax and
buy insurance instead.
Chuck
WB2EDV
Stephen Rice wrote:
>Hi all, I had a question that I believe some of you can answer! I have
>a repeater with an antenna only about 20 feet off the ground here in
>Florida and am now looking for a budget lightning arrester. I have
>seen so many different ads I figured I would go to the horses mouth
>and ask you all if you have to do it on a budget what did you use? Did
>you mount the arrestor outside with an appropriate ground or inside?
>By the way the antenna is low because of the community regs. and it
>does cover the community for GMRS emergency work at that height.
>Thanks Steve N4YZA
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