The most important is a good ground. I used a 10' ground rod that I got from a lineman for a small "fee". It was driven to ground as close as possible to the equipment/s to be protected. The connecting wire was the braid (shield) from a thick coaxial cable. Use the right length ... too short won't reach, and too long will just get in the way. If the equipments are in the upper floors, you'd still benefit as spikes and surges travel thru the path with the least resistance to ground.
Get good spike and surge protectors. I had a gas-type lightning protector (for RF equipments) which reacts more quickly. These protectors only work if you have a good ground. Protect all possible entry points. I had my pc fried once from a near-miss because I forgot about the phone line.
I didn't try a lightning rod - which is supposed to prevent the build-up of static electriciy by continously discharging to ground - because I reasoned out that my antenna array was directly connected to ground. [SIZE=1](If anybody's wondering, the "hot side" of the cable was terminated in an impedance-matching network)[/SIZE]
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June 13th, 2008 06:31 PM #3Last edited by StraightSix; June 13th, 2008 at 06:35 PM.
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