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I have seen radio tower when i dove. An idea struck me, i would like to
connect my FM
antenna to the lightning conductor running down the apartment. I intend
to use a 3 A
fuse series for the connection as a safety precaution in case of a
lightning strike.
Please advise if this is possible ?
Thanks & Regards
 
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Bob

Jan 1, 1970
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I have seen radio tower when i dove. An idea struck me, i would like to
connect my FM
antenna to the lightning conductor running down the apartment. I intend
to use a 3 A
fuse series for the connection as a safety precaution in case of a
lightning strike.
Please advise if this is possible ?
Thanks & Regards

There is a website showcasing people that have acted upon ideas like yours.
Read some of the examples and I think you'll know what to do.

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Bob
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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I have seen radio tower when i dove. An idea struck me, i would like to
connect my FM
antenna to the lightning conductor running down the apartment. I intend to
use a 3 A
fuse series for the connection as a safety precaution in case of a
lightning strike.
Please advise if this is possible ?
Thanks & Regards

It's "possible", yes, but it's a very stupid idea. Stay away from the
lightning protection system; if you really need an FM antenna, you can
make a nice folded dipole out of twin-lead that you could hide in your
baseboards.

Good Luck!
Rich
 
I have seen radio tower when i dove. An idea struck me, i would like to
connect my FM
antenna to the lightning conductor running down the apartment. I intend
to use a 3 A
fuse series for the connection as a safety precaution in case of a
lightning strike.
Please advise if this is possible ?
Thanks & Regards

So let me get this right. The lightning jumps thousands of feet but
when it gets to your fuse, it won't jump the last inch. Did I get that
right? Hopefully only that idea --and not lightning -- will strike you.
Good luck on that.

GG
 
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Puckdropper

Jan 1, 1970
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[email protected] wrote in @p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
So let me get this right. The lightning jumps thousands of feet but
when it gets to your fuse, it won't jump the last inch. Did I get that
right? Hopefully only that idea --and not lightning -- will strike you.
Good luck on that.

GG

A fuse and a resistor, then? ;-)

Puckdropper
 
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jasen

Jan 1, 1970
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I have seen radio tower when i dove. An idea struck me, i would like to
connect my FM
antenna to the lightning conductor running down the apartment. I intend
to use a 3 A
fuse series for the connection as a safety precaution in case of a
lightning strike.
Please advise if this is possible ?

possible, but unsafe. for safety you'd need a 3mA 100000V fast-blow fuse
(or something like that)

best to stay away from lightning.

Bye.
Jasen
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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So let me get this right. The lightning jumps thousands of feet but
when it gets to your fuse, it won't jump the last inch. Did I get that
right? Hopefully only that idea --and not lightning -- will strike you.
Good luck on that.

GG


He might as well use a blasting cap, either way its going to explode.


BTW, this subject was beat to death on a few months ago.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Alan B

Jan 1, 1970
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An idea struck me...

How ironic that you would use that phraseology.
i would like to connect my FM
antenna to the lightning conductor running down the apartment.

That's just dandy. You're going to set up a system to channel a lightning
strike directly into your living room. You do realize that's what you're
suggesting?
I intend to use a 3 A fuse series for the connection as a
safety precaution in case of a lightning strike.
Please advise if this is possible ?

No, it's not possible. A lightning strike isn't going to care much about
that 3A fuse. Once it vaporizes it, it'll keep pouring current across the
ionized air gap, into your tuner and through anything else in its path,
until it finally finds the earth it was seeking when it first hit the
lightning arrestor.

Think about it, just for a second. A massive bolt of electrical energy has
just traveled across hundreds to thousands of meters of an air gap, and
you're going to stop it with a 3A fuse?

Damn, but this group has been getting some absolutely *brilliant* ideas
bandied about lately!
 
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