The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

This is the elderberry extract that we started on last month.

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Found it on Amazon.

Stay safe, @ronott1.

@getaclue, we have the battery back up for our main computers and television also. With our HAM radios we had to add more grounding to protect the radios.

The weird thing is that when it storms, we unplug the radios and detach the antennas from them. One time during a storm we heard a 'pop!' sound coming from the radio room and went in to discover that every time lightening flashed, not even that close to the house, the antennas were picking up a static charge and carrying it into the house through the antenna cable and causing an 'arcing' from the end of the nearest metal surface. Pretty impressive really how sensitive the antennas are to static charges from storms.

Last year a member of our club had his house burn down due to lightening following his antenna being struck and following his coaxial cables into his house.

Really makes you appreciate surge protectors and grounding.

Do you have a ground running from the antenna to the soil? We have on of those on the old satellite dish.

It is weird to go out and see the ash on things! I seems worse than last time.

 

[chickadoodles]

Good morning OF.

Ron I pray those fires stay way clear of you all.

Clue that is terrible that you got hit so hard and had so much protection. So sorry.

 

[ronott1]

Good morning OF.

Ron I pray those fires stay way clear of you all.

Clue that is terrible that you got hit so hard and had so much protection. So sorry.

I am inside with the AC running today! This is the last hot day.

hopefully the weather change will help get the fires under control

 

[chickadoodles]

This is the elderberry extract that we started on last month.

View attachment 2296237

Found it on Amazon.

Stay safe, @ronott1.

@getaclue, we have the battery back up for our main computers and television also. With our HAM radios we had to add more grounding to protect the radios.

The weird thing is that when it storms, we unplug the radios and detach the antennas from them. One time during a storm we heard a 'pop!' sound coming from the radio room and went in to discover that every time lightening flashed, not even that close to the house, the antennas were picking up a static charge and carrying it into the house through the antenna cable and causing an 'arcing' from the end of the nearest metal surface. Pretty impressive really how sensitive the antennas are to static charges from storms.

Last year a member of our club had his house burn down due to lightening following his antenna being struck and following his coaxial cables into his house.

Really makes you appreciate surge protectors and grounding.

My granddaughters that those daily and swear by them. However they still got very sick a couple months ago. I would go with the jam or syrup.

 

[getaclue]

They make several types of ethernet surge protectors. One of the better ones, but less expensive, is made by Ubiquiti. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R20OIA...qmt=b&hvbmt=bb&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_312zx5dy8w_b

 

[chickadoodles]

I am inside with the AC running today! This is the last hot day.

hopefully the weather change will help get the fires under control

I hope so!

 

[microchick]

Do you have a ground running from the antenna to the soil? We have on of those on the old satellite dish.

It is weird to go out and see the ash on things! I seems worse than last time.

Yes, to a copper plated rod pounded into the ground. Copper is your best conductor of electricity.

The problem is that lightening being what it is can overpower the best of grounded systems. A direct strike and all bets are off, like our friend who lost his home last year in spite of being well grounded.

Moral of the story is. Don't mess with mother nature. She will knock you down and sit on your head.

 

[ronott1]

Yes, to a copper plated rod pounded into the ground. Copper is your best conductor of electricity.

The problem is that lightening being what it is can overpower the best of grounded systems. A direct strike and all bets are off, like our friend who lost his home last year in spite of being well grounded.

Moral of the story is. Don't mess with mother nature. She will knock you down and sit on your head.

Absolutely!

Luckily lightning is rare here-- The storm that caused these fires was the first one in years.

 

[Bunnylady]

Copper is your best conductor of electricity.

Many years ago, Hubs suspended a copper cable across the back yard and up a pine tree to act as a radio antenna . . . I think it was short wave he was trying to pick up. Anyway, it was grounded to a metal rod outside of the bedroom window. One day, when he was mowing the back yard, he found the copper cable lying on the ground in pieces. Waayyy up at the top of the pine tree, there was the unmistakable mark of a lightning strike, but it stopped at about the point where the end of the cable had been. Don't have to be a genius to figure that one out.

 

[getaclue]

Like I said, I'll order some ethernet cable, surge protectors. That won't stop the surge from a direct hit, but the way I intend to connect them, it will prevent the surge from wiping out the whole system.