[BC] AM transmitter lightning sensitivity issue

[Jerry Mathis]

On 5/22/08, Gary Glaenzer <glaenzer at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> even the power company has started using them
>
> it's an almost-circle of springy wire, with about 15-20 points sticking up
>
> it clips around the insulator where the primary lead goes into the pole
> transformer, and the resulting corona discharge warns Rocket J Squirrel
> that
> he is approaching a Danger Zone
>
> thus preventing Arcus Flashoverus, with the resulting Carbonicus Rodentus
>
> the power co guys claim a squirrel won't get within a couple feet of them



Ah HA! So THAT's what those things are! I've wondered.

Related to the subject, lightning hit a tree right behind my house today.
Blew the tree apart, bark and wood fragments showered down all over my back
yard.  While looking around outside, I even found a red-headed woodpecker on
the ground, obviously cooked. He must have been either in or on the tree
when the lightning hit. Inside my house, it got one TV, my telephone, my
Internet router, and my computer. Also several light bulbs, including a
couple of CF's. Here's a different one, when I went to get water for coffee,
the water has full of mud and rust. I finally figured, that when the
lightning hit the phone and cable wires, they are grounded to the cold water
pipe on the back of my house, and enough electricity entered that pipe to
knock loose a bunch of scale and corrosion.





-- 
Jerry Mathis