Re: [TCML] comments on designing a lightning protection system

[bunnykiller <bunnikillr@xxxxxxx>]

You have got to be kidding??!!   this was a supposedly legit installer 
doing this?? Who even came up with the idea to make a "handrail" 
termination clamp for the system?? Altho a smaller one would probably 
work great on a primary  :)


As my wife sez....  " They are out there"  ( meaning the stupid people)
Sheeshh... as I sit here shaking my head in disbelief........

Yurtle Turtle wrote:

> Here's what a "professional" did on my last project. This is not a gag photo. The lightning rod was really tied directly to a handrail.
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> http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/temp/IMG_0385.JPG
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> Of course if you're holding onto this handrail, proper grounding wouldn't really matter much.
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> Adam
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> --- On Thu, 6/5/08, Jon Busack <boo1062@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Please have a professional do your lightning protection
> > system design and
> > installation. It's more complicated than it seems.
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