On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 03:39:55 -0000, "gandalf"
wrote:

With a lightning conductor you can be reasonably sure that you will get struck.
Again and again. So I think a risk assessment might be in order because the
fright you get when you do get struck is not pleasant.

Just wondering aloud - there is an awful lot of instantaneous power
transferred when lightning makes contact. I imagine that this would
fry any puny lightning conductor on the first occasion.

Presumably lightning conductors are designed such that they can carry
the enormous load the instant of a second?

PoP