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Old 08-10-2025, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Villager24 View Post
Call me superficial, but I just don’t like the look of cables running all over the roof. Are there some lps that run the cables inside?
Use "copper" vs "aluminum" cabling. Copper ages and blends with time -- aluminum does not. Cables are always installed outside the house because the lightning bolt travels on the "outside" edges of the cable ... thus putting cables on the inside is counter-productive.
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