lightening keeps hitting the wood burner chimney

[Weekend_Sawyer]

It's called Fulgurite, I have a couple of nice examples of it at home.
It looks like grey sandstone.

Check out:

http://www.minresco.com/fulgurites/fulgurites.htm

Jon

[Dale Hatfield]

Price is computed at $2.50 / gram, all specimens.
Then rounded up.

Sounds like ya have a money maker in the back yard.
Plant a few poles in a few diff kinds of sand.
Dale ;D ;D ;D

[scsmith42]

Getoverit, you hit the nail on the head.

A lot of communication towers have these.  A lightning strike can wipe out a quarter of a million dollars of cellular base station equipment, so it's worth the investment.

They do make a difference.  You need a solid grounding system running from your ground grid to the ionizer for it to work best though.  Typically several ground rods are driven in and around the tower base, and connected together with silver solder or exothermic welding (Cadwelding).

Regards, Scott

[rebocardo]

I was just wondering about the cable suggestions.

If lightening hits your chimney, is a mere cable up to handling the thousands of volts and watts? If you have ever done any boo-boos with a battery, even a 1" inch thick welding cable will go poof.  is any cable up to handling that kind of load? Would not a solid piece of metal for grounding be better?


Isn't there a national standard in the code for this?

[Part_Timer]

I could be wrong but I think that the point of the grounding cable is to keep the stove at ground potential and keep it from developing enough differance in potential in the first place ???

I think

Tom