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| Subject: | Re: [TowerTalk] Ground wire Gauge |
| From: | Martin AA6E <aa6e@ewing.homedns.org> |
| Date: | Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:31:09 -0400 |
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More copper (and more surface area) for lightning protection are always better, like 4/0. I ran across an interesting commercial installation here: http://tinyurl.com/2v5sea . 73 Martin AA6E Tony wrote: > All: > > Replaced 3 tower ground wires today with #2 > insulated stranded copper. Noticed the original > wires looked closer to 0 or possibly 00 and was > wondering if I'm loosing much with the smaller > gauge? The runs are about 3 to 4 feet long. > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > TowerTalk mailing list > TowerTalk@contesting.com > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk |
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