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Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Lightning protection
Message-ID: <12572@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 23:40:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 23:40:00 1984
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From:  Keith Petersen 

One effective way of protecting against lightning-induced line
transcients at remote repeater sites is to add a Sola constant voltage
transformer (harmonic-neutralized type for low AC waveform
distortion).  This is rather expensive unless you find one at a flea
market or surplus store.  It is used by many commercial users as an
effective method of protecting the equipment, however.  Many equipment
failures which appear to have been caused by lightning coming in
through the antenna are actually caused by it coming in on the AC
lines.
--73, Keith W8SDZ