On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:08:24 -0400, Mickey Baker wrote:
>K7DD is right. Bond to your SPG with as big a wire as you feel you can
>afford.
Right.
>Longer path = bigger wire.
WRONG! Lightning is NOT a DC event. It is a TRANSIENT, with its energy
centered around the AM broadcast band and extending for several octaves
either side (that is, from about 200 kHz to about 5 MHz). INDUCTANCE is
what matters, and that is proportional to length. The only benefit of a
bigger conductor is that the conductor can discharge more of the event
before it vaporizes. :)
73, Jim Brown K9YC
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