[Novalug] whole-house surge protectors

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Ed James wrote:

> Or, if your local zoning/HOA/wotever allows it, put up
> a tall flagpole.  In the Olde Days, these were called
> lightning rods.  Actually, I'm not really sure how much
> damage an EMP from a nearby hits does either.  I've
> seen 2 hits within about 30 feet of me over the years
> that some rather large trees took, that did some impressive
> damage to the trees.  One tree a few blocks away pretty
> much exploded, broke, fell over, hit a row of townhouses,
> smashed the electrical service, caused a chain-reaction
> of ground failures (grounding systems didn't work), and
> \caused several appliances to "flame-on".  The building
> caught fire and six families had to move until the
> damage was repaired.  Poor little transistors don't stand
> much of a chance against that kind of power.

Well I had a cedar tree next to my house (30 ft) get a strike in 1983 or 
so and it survived although it was scarred and slowly died. It finally had 
to be taken down in 2011. The immediate effect of the strike was that 
around 5 dogs teleported onto my bed and then those dogs had a "rest of 
the lifetime" fear of severe storms. Never could figure out how to 
reboot the dogs' brains. :-)

>
> Ed James
>
> On 3/7/12, steve zamory <zemo at safe-mail.net> wrote:
>> ... If you, like some I know, get a direct bolt
>> every few years, you may opt for a whole house device....
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