[Elecraft] K3 #4407 - dead

[Pete Smith]

This was exactly my point - unless you have a letter-perfect 
installation, leaving things connected and relying on a bunch of gas 
tubes is a recipe for disaster. As Guy suggested, disconnection won't 
always prevent damage, but remaining connected with less than 
professionally designed and installed bonding schemes is just inviting it.

73, Pete N4ZR

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On 8/12/2010 12:50 PM, W8JI wrote:
> The real problem is almost always that people pepper the station with
> >  protection devices but use poor wiring layouts or poor entrance schemes. 99%
> >  of the protection is in  the layout and bonding, not in the protection
> >  devices we throw into the system.
>