[time-nuts] GPS antenna and lightning

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Oct 4 12:02:59 UTC 2009


In message <bf689bbe0910040459s2143ee2fu699d17347b122e93 at mail.gmail.com>, Bob P
addock writes:

>I had one strike here that came *up* out of our 300 foot deep water well,
>when a tree several hundred yards away took a direct hit.  You would
>think a 300 foot  deep metal pipe filled with water would be a good ground...

The problem is that the ground is not always a good ground...

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