Wayne.B wrote in
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Every once in a while you hear about someone with a plastic thru hull
transducer getting blown out by lightning.



http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/SG071
Great webpage. The professor of EE is also a sailor.

Enter:

Sailboat lightning grounding

into the Google search engine. There's lots of pages so you can do it
right.

NEVER MAKE A NEAT RIGHT ANGLE TURN ON A LIGHTNING GROUND! If you gotta
be "pretty", don't bother with it at all. ALL turns in ALL lightning
grounds MUST be made gradually over a large diameter, not those
"nautical" perfect looking turns the bilge pump wires have. This
reduceds series INDUCTANCE. Series inductance on the very-fast pulse of
a lightning hit is what destroys it....

http://www.copper.org/applications/e...kgbi_station_A
6082.html

http://www.space.com/businesstechnol...ket_lightning_
030130.html
Very interesting.....Xrays!


Larry
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