Hi Bill,
My tower is 60ft away from the well casing and my submersible pump. The
first pump was fried the first time the tower was hit. THEN the electrician
put a
#6 ground wire from the pump casing to the well casing and that ended that
problem forever......at least for the past 32 years!!!
I would have never believed I needed that ground!
Larry K1UO
"What I prefer even more is to keep them away from my submersible well pump.
100 feet of 4 inch casing appears as a very nice ground to a lightning hit
on
a tower 10 or 20 feet away. Been there and done that twice at my other QTH
and it cost me $800 both times to replace the pump."
Bill K4XS
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