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mrf0151 06-26-2024 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Slakeforest (Post 2344213)
Is there a contractor that is recommended for lightning rods installation?
Most definitely Danny Mack with A-1 Lightening. He did ours with full copper 3 years ago. Highest quality materials and was the best price by far.
Seems to be a lot of experts chiming in here. This is his field of expertise, and he will give you if you want, quite an education.

ElDiabloJoe 06-26-2024 08:02 AM
I use the Lightning app on my iPhone. Icon is a black bolt on a yellow background. Does a great job of letting me know where lightning is hitting in a miles-wide radius and you can zoom in to see almost exactly where the hits are. Great for watching the progress of a storm also as the clusters of lightning show the directionality of the storm.

No, not the developer nor do I receive any commission on the app. Besides, it's free.

Susan Garbarino 06-26-2024 02:05 PM
Where can I find the date and location of the next presentation by your club, please?
 
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Originally Posted by jrref (Post 2344154)
You are absolutely correct. When lightning strikes anything, home, tree, ground, etc, meaning cloud to ground strike, we always hear a loud bang depending on how close it is to our house. But if it hits an object we usually see a fire and that tells us what happened. On the other hand if your home had a LPS for example, and lightning hit and was safely shunted to ground, unless you were actually standing outside your house at that moment, you would not know what actually happened. The Villages Lightning Study Group has I believe 16 documented cases of homes that the owners believed were hit by lightning. From one we have the damaged lightning rod, and in the others there was some evidence of the grounding cable getting hot and scortching a bush branch touching the wire.
Where can I find the date and location of the next presentation by your club, please?

Bill14564 06-26-2024 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Susan Garbarino (Post 2344566)
Where can I find the date and location of the next presentation by your club, please?
Post #55 might help.

jrref 06-26-2024 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Susan Garbarino (Post 2344566)
Where can I find the date and location of the next presentation by your club, please?
We just did one at that last POA meeting. They didn't record it but here is last years meeting. Basically the same presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMLyywdB0A&t=1686s

EviesGP 06-28-2024 09:03 PM
3 Neighbors were hit on Friday night. Next door had their lamppost hit, and irrigation controller zapped. 2 doors down killed both their TVs, fridge, and garage door opener. 3 doors down, she lost an electric recliner. We got lucky. I'm going to look into the surge protector at the meter.

Altavia 06-28-2024 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by jrref (Post 2344587)
We just did one at that last POA meeting. They didn't record it but here is last years meeting. Basically the same presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMLyywdB0A&t=1686s
Is the presentation available?

RobertScott 06-29-2024 11:23 AM
Sadly one result of this thread is that A1 must be buried, as I contacted them on their website a few days ago with no response.

Altavia 06-29-2024 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by RobertScott (Post 2345421)
Sadly one result of this thread is that A1 must be buried, as I contacted them on their website a few days ago with no response.
Try John Sherlock (he may be retired by now).

(407) 552-2283
(317) 478-3286
1-888-670-0781


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