[FADCA] Watch the Blue Light

[bud thompson]

Picture this. . . I'm sitting at my computer answering an e-mail.  Immediately to my left, just inches more than an arm's length away, is a window looking across the back yard to the lake.  At the floor level beneath the window is the single point ground plate with five Polyphasor lightning arrestors feeding through to the buried coax feed lines going out to the 70 ft tower. 60 ft from the house. 

It was raining, but not hard.  I'd not paid attention to any thunder and had not noticed any lightning until . . .

A spot of blue light out the corner of my eye - and BANG! immediately.  I was not sure if the light, which appeared to be just about eye height was inside the room between the wall and me, outside, or just a reflection of lightning in the glass - but I thought was in the room with me!

No doubt the Polyphasor lightning arrestors did their job - as this was a direct or near-direct hit!

Then there's that brown spot .  .  .

bud N0IA