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Lightning protection
By halfcrazy, Section Remote Living Posted on Sun Dec 21st, 2003 at 07:39:56 AM MST
How many and where?

My question for everyone is with a completely off grid system in central maine how many surge suppresors and where do i nead them for lightning protection? I have a dc disconect for the panels and charge controller i figured one there. and i have a main 120 panel and i also have a 240 volt panel from the generator that ties into the inverter should there be one there or is it overkill? and i also have a auto transformer for a deep well pump i was told i should have one there to? what is everyones opinion?

Lightning protection | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: Lightning protection (none / 0) (#1)
by drdongle (Dr.Dongle1@juno.com) on Sun Dec 21st, 2003 at 11:20:39 AM MST
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If you have a wind turbine there you definitely want to ground the tower, and add arrestors to the incoming lines.
Any equipment that is exposed out side, particularly if it is elevated or near high objects needs to be grounded, if possible and have arrestors.

Dr.D
Carpe Vigor, Dr.D

Re: Lightning protection (none / 0) (#2)
by charged on Sun Dec 21st, 2003 at 11:57:34 AM MST
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As another addition, just for the sake of greater system integrity, consider a heavy DPDT flip switch with the incoming power tied to the center. "Up" goes to your charging system, "down" shunts the outside genny line into a low impedance liquid dead-load with a good earth-ground.

That way you can completely isolate your system when thunderbangers come through and still have some loading on the generator.

Re: Lightning protection (none / 0) (#3)
by wpowokal on Mon Dec 22nd, 2003 at 07:36:37 AM MST
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Halfcrazey,

all of the above but also, Homepower 98 (current issue) page 106 "Old world Charm with Modern Convenience, a follow up artical on 2 previous issues, worth a read on this subject.
http://www.homepower.com

Allan
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

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