[BC] Lightning and grounded masts

[Alan Alsobrook]

Clive I won't doubt your figures. But I'm not sure mother nature is following them. I've seen at 
least one crushed 10 amp coil and several blown apart 293 capacitors in the shunt leg of the T 
network on a shunt fed tower.  Give me a day and I'll provide pictures of the Arc gap I installed 
which is gapped out to about 2KV and it shows plenty of activity..
Alan  (from lightning free Florida)


> Substituting, this gives V = 0.016/0.000002 = 800 volts.
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> Anyone care to challenge my figures?
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> Empirically, I have worked on many shunt-fed, and never ever saw any damage
> caused by lightning.