All this talk of electricity reminds me of something that happened to me
about 10 years ago. Now mind you I know little about electricity...make a
circuit, series, parallel...that's about it. We had just moved into a new
house and one night around 9 pm half the lights went out; a few rooms
downstairs and a few rooms upstairs and on opposite sides of the house. What
the heck? I checked the breaker box and nothing had tripped. I called the
builder at home and he had no idea either (I should have known better). I
called the power company and they showed up about an hour later. I met them
in the yard and asked how the hell do you lose half your power? He chuckled
and said...
Charlie
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > You're a funny guy. When I was in broadcasting, we would have power
> > problems, and call the electric company. Because of our business and
> > electricity use, they would usually look into things, but the final
> answer
> > was almost always, You have to take what you get.
>
>
>
> The biggest problem broadcasters face with electrical power is proper
> earth-grounding. In some areas of the country, you can be as far away as
> seven miles from the nearest electrical earth ground. Grounding an antenna
> is one thing, because you create your own ground field that had to only be
> a
> certain size in relation to the wavelength of the broadcasted signal. But
> for electrical power as well as static drainage, you need to be able to
> essentially get into the conductive soils. In parts of this world, there
> are
> no conductive soils suitable for static drainage. Because you can't get the
> tower to drain static properly, it becomes a lightning magnet.
>
> This is a huge problem in areas of coal mining. For some reason the ground
> in these areas is antithetical to static drainage. A lightning strike can
> travel literally miles underground before eventually finding its way to
> earth ground. A problem that the coal mining industry has fought forever.
>
> AG
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