[MLB-WIRELESS] ...the morning after.

[Mark Allen]

Howdy All...

Just a thought on the earthing of poles and equipment, you really dont want
to earth your equipment if your not the heighest point in the area, it may
in fact be a very very bad thing as your providing a good path to ground,
and if lightning is in your area rather than going for a moist tree, it will
go for your equipment... and simply unplugging it wont stop 100,000 -
1,000,000 V's jumping a air gap onto the next good earth in your rack/pc...

If your going to earth, do it properly, 8mm earth is the minimum, but what
you really want is a properly setup earthing grid and flat 2mm copper strip
to conduct and a gas arrestor on the coax...

There is a lot of australian standards of earthing for electrical and
telecommunications, visit standards.com.au and have a look see (must be in
pdf somewhere!)

Just a thought, and sorry to hear of your bad weather... it was another
lovely tropical Brisbane day here...

Mark A

BrisMesh and Such..
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Mark Allen -- Alarm Systems Service Technician
Senior Technician -- ABC Alarms Pty Ltd
CCTV -- High Security -- Home Security
Commercial -- Industrial -- Service -- Telecommunications
Operator -- MPAP, Brisbane Queensland
marka at mpap.net.nosp@m
marka at abcalarms.com.au.nosp@m
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Winder" <winder at iinet.net.au>
Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] ...the morning after.


>
> I had a moat around my house this morning. Had to get a plumber to unblock
> the drain, I made sure to call one at like 7:30 to make sure we got one
> before everyone else called him. By the time he got to us he spent half
his
> time on the phone telling people 'friday and next week'. There is still
> water flowing from the drain at 5:30 PM. There is a trail of kids toys and
> tan bark from the back yard all the way down the street and I now have a
> lovely clay color on everything. Had a little seapage in some spots so a
> little water got in the house.
>
>  Had boxen turned off for the night, but not unplugged from the antenna
> which I guess I should have done. Next time. Might earth the antenna pole
> and/or get a lightning protector when I could be bothered to :)
>
> Regards,
> g at z.
>
>
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