Take a look at K5FD site: they have a 12 wire version.
http://hr-micro.com/index.html
Ray,
N6VR
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, <john@kk9a.com> wrote:
> Array Solutions makes a nice protector.
> http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/surge_arrestor.htm
>
>
> To: TOWERTALK@contesting.com
> Subject:[TowerTalk] Lightning protection and control wires
> From: Larry Loen <lwloen@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:34:59 -0700
>
>
> I really don't understand, quite, how to protect myself from lightning
> coming down the various wires. I'm sure this will be crushingly obvious
> to
> someone, but I'm clearly missing something.
>
> I'll have wires to coax switches and, of course, the rotor.
>
> I plan on doing all the grounding of the coax and even putting in one of
> those special gadgets that "blow out" a ball of
> whatever-that-substance-is
> for the non-ground signal on the coax. I plan on putting in the
> grounding
> systems talked about in "Up the Tower" and generally around here.
>
> But, despite having "Up the Tower" I don't get how to really secure
> control
> lines (e.g. to the rotor) as far as lightning goes.
>
> Is there some gadget that does the job?
>
> Have I overlooked something?
>
> Do I just rely on the regular low impedance grounding system to take up
> most of the energy and hope not much flows on these wires?
>
>
>
>
> Larry Wo0Z
>
>
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