DKSanders wrote:

Hi All,
I have been asked to fit a lightning conductor to a friends house extension
(a 'tower' like extra floor in the middle of the existing house!). How
should this be done, any special considerations etc, where do you get the
conductor from, do you have to use copper 'tape' like you see coming down
from church spires, does it connect to a normal earth rod?

Any help or advice gratefully appreciated, thanks.




Long, fat, and pointed, and as conductive as you can make it.

The protection partially comes from the conductor bleeding charge away
from the tower and lowering teh potentil difference around it making it
less likley to be a strike target.

Once struck, even the thickest copper strap is likely to melt. Strikes
can take out power lines easily.

Just hope that MOST of the energy goes down it before it deoes.