replying to George Miles, Iggy wrote:
I'm talking about lightning, as one threat, because it's the most threatening
and most common. Lightning energizes the air and the earth. If you only
provide an outlet with no inlet, then you're dissipating lightning's residual
effect that is very weak. The facts about electricity are that it always
returns to the source of the electricity in seek of balance.

And therefore, if you add another rod and connection you're inviting more than
a residual of the energy, because you create both an inlet and an outlet, this
is very bad since neither you nor your devices can handle lightning's power.
Meaning, your current setup hasn't failed you and it has been confirmed to be
working properly. Don't fix what ain't broken and spray some herbicide around
the earth rod so you stop bumping into it.

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