looked inside a lightning arrestor ? Given any thought to how they work ? Basically how they work is that when you get a power surge the power surge will be offloaded to ground. So if you don't ground the coax or the lightning arrestor there is no where the surge can be offload to. Think of it as a dam. If you get a flood of water and you don't have any ways to offload excess water it will start flowing over the brim or just put so much presure on your turbines that they will blow. Same thing goes with electricity through a lightning arrestor. If there is no where it can offload the electricity that is conductive it WILL go through your arrestor and kill what is on the other side of it..
Check out pholyphasers white paper on their website in how to properly install and use a lightning arrestor. / Eje Friday, July 18, 2003, 1:35:19 AM, you wrote: JK> When you install the lightning arrestors don't worry about grounding. I JK> know I'm going to catch a lot of flack about this one, but basically JK> when you ground the equipment you are just begging for lightning to JK> travel up the cable you grounded instead of the tower. With the lighting JK> arrestor in place you literally don't have to worry about the voltages JK> getting into your equipment. I have never worried about grounding the JK> lightning arrestor to the tower or the equipment. Basically the JK> lightning arrestor is already grounded to the tower through the coaxial JK> cable that is attached to the antenna and then to the tower. I have JK> never had a cell site go down because of lightning and I manage well JK> over 50 of them. Jason JK> -----Original Message----- JK> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JK> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lancaster Networks JK> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 1:26 AM JK> To: Jason Keller JK> Subject: Re[7]: [smartBridges] New Firmware JK> Hello Jason, JK> Oh theres's a lighting rod, and low-band / uhf t-band antenna's on it JK> right JK> now at the top, so their the highest. JK> I'll make sure the Polyphasers are installed as a must, and of course JK> grounded properly. JK> Friday, July 18, 2003, 2:10:51 AM, you wrote: JK>> Return-Path: <> JK>> Received: from [66.150.163.162] (HELO m5) JK>> by spamarrest.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.3) JK>> with ESMTP id 10163514 for cbunting; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:15:04 JK> -0700 JK>> Received: from part-15.org ([198.63.203.3]) JK>> by mail.fission2.com (Merak 5.9.4) with SMTP id CPA74271 JK>> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 02:12:41 JK> -0400 JK>> Received: from smtp.omnis.com [216.239.128.26] by pdqlink.com with JK> ESMTP JK>> (SMTPD32-4.07) id A15C290136; Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:19:08 CDT JK>> Received: from home (unknown [208.28.240.102]) JK>> by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA675B673 JK>> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:11:14 JK> -0700 (PDT) JK>> From: "Jason Keller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JK>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JK>> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:10:51 -0500 JK>> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JK>> MIME-Version: 1.0 JK>> Content-Type: text/plain; JK>> charset="us-ascii" JK>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit JK>> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) JK>> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal JK>> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 JK>> Importance: Normal JK>> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JK>> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 JK>> Subject: RE: Re[5]: [smartBridges] New Firmware JK>> Precedence: bulk JK>> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JK>> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JK>> What ever you do, never be the highest thing on the tower. Lightning JK>> travels from the ground up. Wherever it exits gets blown to bits. If JK> its JK>> your omni, or sectoral you will be sorry. Make sure there is a JK> lightning JK>> rod or something up there other than your antenna. Jason JK>> -----Original Message----- JK>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JK>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JK>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] JK>> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:54 AM JK>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JK>> Subject: Re[5]: [smartBridges] New Firmware JK>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Lancaster Networks wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Thanks for the help, I was told by a couple people, don't bother with >>> the poly's, as it's so close of a hit if the radio is 2 feet away it >>> will get nailed also. But, hey they are only $50 or less and not a JK> lot >>> of loss. I'm not going to risk the AP's... JK>> This is true, it PROBABLY won't help, but it won't hurt much either. >>> Take a look at my site http://www.lancastertowers.com and look at the >>> tower on the right hand side... I'm considering mounting to the top >>> 10% but not right at the top possibly. Any thoughts on this? JK>> Just run your downtilt calcs, see how it looks. Make sure you aren't JK>> shooting over your customer's heads. >>> Thanks again for your input, and you sure moved a long way to the >>> Bahama's! No Amish down there I would gather? lol JK>> Happy to help. And there aren't Amish here, but there are a few JK> (VERY JK>> few) JK>> Mennonites. 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