RE: Am I courting disaster?

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

I think he was referring to a pig lightning arrestor,
like one of these:

http://www.hot-streamer-dot-com/adam/garage/gap_18kV_1.jpg

Quite huge and heavy.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au>
 >
 > Original poster: "Crow Leader"
 > <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>
 >
 > -snip-
 >    How about just a spark gap? Lightning arrestors
 > are large and heavy,
 > even
 >    polymer ones. This sort of defeats the entire
 > goal you were shooting
 > for.
 > -----------------------------------
 >
 > Where'd you get that idea? One of these on each 120V
 > line to earth would do
 > the trick quite nicely:
 >
http://www.novaris-dot-com.au/products/earthing/specs/ec20.html
 >
 >