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Originally Posted by Laker14
VillageTinker, what is your opinion on the lightning arrestor systems I see around the neighborhood? I'm talking about the ones with the metal rods that stick up along the roof lines?
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I'll let him answer but my experience is that they actually attract lightning, but you can still get a lightning strike nearby that comes into your house via the cables/wires. Remember the heavy roof wire leads the lightning into the ground at your foundation. It can still come in via the burried TV cable, etc. I know of one instance where the lightning hit the roof shingles and not the spikes and still caused a fire to the house. They are not 100% effective. But they might help. Hard to collect data on a system like that.
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