What to do with unplugged coax

[djrebel236]

well i dont unplug my stuff any more because ive been hit a few times and yes at those times i would un plug my stuff, but now i just leave it plugged in, if a tornado would happen to come through i want to be able to be heard, i recommend grounding out your stuff that helps alot during storms, i had a few new radios still in the box that got zapped and a few other things but now i quit unpluging my stuff cause i got the stuff grounded out, the lightening will follow the ground wire to the ground, and so for thats been working for me, yes i replace the ground wires each year, same as my coax, whatever ya do be safe...Dj

[cobra jet]

[quote] How many volts and amps in a typical lightning flash? A typical lightning bolt contains: Shocked 1 billion volts and contains between 10,000 to 200,000 amperes of current. I don't think your coax is rated for that much output / input.

"It's not the volts that will kill you, but the AMPS!"

[Foxhunter]

How many volts and amps in a typical lightning flash? A typical lightning bolt contains: Shocked: 1 billion volts and contains between 10,000 to 200,000 amperes of current. I don't think your coax is rated for that much output / input.

"It's not the volts that will kill you, but the AMPS!"

True, true. Hey those 8 billion volts w/200,000 amps would make a good power supply for the base.

As far as the "it's not the volts that kill" it's true-----the "average" static-shock from say scuffing your feet on the carpet is between 3,000 volts to 35,000 volts.----"It's the amps".

[lonesome 500]

glass jar = deadly shrapnel

get a piece of junk coax .....put a pl259 on one end.....other solder to 8' ground rod...couple with a barrel connector

this is my project

[pipsqueek]

Shrapnel, very possibly. That's why now my milk jars are now wrapped with rubber splicing tape covered with Scotch "33" and sitting in a HEAVY ceramic dish.
Best course of action..... avoid strikes.
Pips

[Foxhunter]

glass jar = deadly shrapnel get a piece of junk coax .....put a pl259 on one end.....other solder to 8' ground rod...couple with a barrel connector this is my project

Hey Lonesome500 I was wondering what the colored indicators/ends are on the TVI's are they different in some way or did you do that yourself for separation/identification ? Now you have those MFJ arrestors incorporated in there I remember. You know they say that glass-shrapnel provides "temporary Sporadic-E"

[djrebel236]

i forgot to add if ya get the coax wet your SWR will go throught the roof, thats another reason that i just leave it in, if lithtening is gonna zap my stuff it will wether i unplug it or not...Dj