Most of the Sat gear is well protected from Lightning. Infact all the equipment up there will be well protected. Its cheaper to replace an arrester than $100,000 worth of hardware :) . I have seen LMR900 Bend into a ball of melted copper with a non direct hit. Blew the N-Connector 2 cm into a concrete wall!. I have some good Docs on lightning protection for WLAN equipment . Theory applies to any RF equipment .

Best Regards -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=--=-=-=- Matthew G Brown Tasman Solutions LTD Wireless Network Specialist DDI: +64 3 543 9092 http://www.tasman.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dylan Reeve" To: "NZNOG" Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Extreme Electrical Failure...

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...is what happened to ihug's Starnet/Satnet/Ultra gear the last time (I remember) lightning hitting the sky tower. There were also photos of the strike.

Last night I saw 6 lightning strikes on the tower (including a REALLY big one) over about 30 minutes, but I haven't heard of anything being fried. And there don't seem to be any photos.

Anyone know of any damage this time or have any photographic evidence of the strikes?

(This is my not-quite-so-off-topic way of saying "anyone seen any photos or heard of anything melting?")

-- Dylan Reeve - dylan(a)wibble.net It's just not cricket.

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Here's hoping that the WLAN gear I have in the spare room is safe enough =) I'm waiting for Richard Naylor to come out with the $3.50 cheapie lightning arrester =) Dean On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:56:26AM +1300, Matthew G Brown wrote: - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:28:43AM +1300, Richard Naylor wrote:

Oh and the wind generated transients on external cat-5 - but thats all fixed now with the 53cent tvs devices.....is that what you wanted Dean, a real cheapie ?

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