I say the well casing is a bad idea as many wells have submersible pumps which are easily damaged by lightning strikes the local electricians tell me and it does sound plausible. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Those submersible pumps are I wonder what the actual fault path was? Assume for a minute that the pump wiring were bonded to the top of the casing. If lightning hits, everything should rise and fall
I know that my pump wiring isn't bonded to the well casing. Should it be? Also when I was running my tower grounding system I decided not to attach the the well casing to the system. I am a little co
My well is on the other side of my house from the tower. The tower is about 60' from the house and probably 175' from the tower. I suffered a major strike, and my well water was cloudy for two weeks.
Is the pump wiring bonded to the top of the casting? Perhaps doing so with MOVs would minimize lightning damage? The well at my previous QTH was 350 feet from the tower and never suffered any failure
Correct me, if I'm wrong, but doesn't the well casing only run down to the bedrock, the pump being possibly much deeper in the hole? If so, even the connected ground and casing might not be of that g
Our 150' well is just slightly out of line between the tower and service entrance ground. Probably about 60' from each. The tower and service entrance grounds are tied together with a total of 33 gro
Could be. I'm pretty ignorant on wells and such. I was just wondering what the failure mechanism would be. Is it current flowing from the earth into the pump and up the power wires (or vice versa)? O
This is another ...It all depends. Much of the country, or maybe most of if is not mountainous and bed rock is a very long way down so the wells do not extend all the way to bed rock. Here bed rock (
I have been following this thread but may have missed some points. I have an abandoned and unused well largely running through Basalt (sp) rock with about a thirty foot long steel liner at the top. I
Many as it really doesn't help the performance. These deep grounds are for safety and have little effect on RF and particularly verticals. Of course we often hear of some one who has their vertical r
The reason is simple. Current is pushed into one side of the antenna and "pulled out" the other. (to over-simplify things) In-between both sides of the antenna, the current has to travel through what
Ummm Are you sure that is accurate? Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@contesting.com http://l
It's a dramatic oversimplification. I am sure that others can give a more accurate description of what happens, and that still others will misinterpret that more accurate description :) -- All rights