[Elecraft] Avoiding costly lightning damage to your radios gear

[Fred Jensen]

Open wire feedlines used to have "spark balls" for lightning protection 
on high power transmitter installations. Admittedly, the transmitters 
used tubes.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 10/30/2018 2:32 PM, rv6amark via Elecraft wrote:
> Re:  "Spark plugs fire at 12,000 to 25,000 Volts. Some require as much as 45,000 V."
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> That is at the pressure inside the combustion chamber.  At atmospheric  pressure, they fire at much lower voltages; however, Walter's point is still valid.  Turn on voltage is far more reliable with gas discharge tubes.  Sparkplugs were probably more helpful  with tube gear than with today's solid state gear.
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> Mark
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