[BC] Charge Dissipation Devices

[Mario Hieb, P.E.]

Does anyone have test data on these devices?

If charge is actually dissipated, a current flows and this should be 
measurable.


Mario



At 11:01 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote:
>Message: 11
>Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:07:57 -0400
>From: "Bruce Doerle" <bdoerle at mail.ucf.edu>
>Subject: [BC] Lightning Prevention?????
>To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>Cc: dwhitehair at WI.RR.COM
>Message-ID: <s2811438.086 at mail.ucf.edu>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
>Fellow broadcasters,
>
>Last week there was a brief debate on the merits of Charge Dissipation 
>Devices (ie lightning prevention or avoidance systems).  The debate 
>started in response to a message from Mr. Dana Whitehair of KUT, 
>University of Texas.  Mr. Whitehair's message, mine, and others are shown 
>below this initial paragraph grouping.
>
>Of course, this raised some hairs on the manufacturer's of these products 
>and number of messages took place in public and behind the scenes.  The 
>end product of these messages attacked me and eluded to testimonials as 
>evidence that their products work.  Most engineers and scientist know that 
>CTS and ESE products do not work; they have not been endorsed by any 
>professional scientific, regulatory, or standards body.  The manufacturers 
>offer no scientific proof of their theories and claim their products 
>performance by using testimonials as evidence that the product 
>works.  However, there is a significant fault in this logic.  The 
>testimonials are from unknowing persons who lack the knowledge to 
>understand this questionable, unproven technology.
>
>My issue in this message is to open a debate on the merits of CTS 
>(protection / avoidance) technology.  Lightning is an issue that most 
>broadcast must deal with and how you deal with it will determine the 
>safety and reliability issues of your broadcast site.  I do not believe 
>that the claims made by CTS vendors is clearly understood in our broadcast 
>community, and I would like to open this issue up for discussion.  I 
>invite all interest parties to participate.  I encourage you to read the 
>messages below to understand with who you are dealing.
>
>Regards,
>
>Bruce

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Mario Hieb, P.E.
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