Haha..i did

Maxid1 hahaha😂😂 ikr

That may be true as I myself been hit twice by lightning & numerously times shocked. I am bald only on top but told it's hereditary on your Mother's side of the family as is true my mothers brothers too are all bald just the same as I am.However you never lose the hair around on the sides of your ears & the very back unless it's a cancer or something else. But you know what I say? So what if I am bald, in fact I even shave my head & people act as if though something is wrong with us that are bald. Most people & I mean most men are bald & wear hair pieces & weaves in shame of it. I alway's tell people to be who God made you & don't flatter yourself. Their ain't nobody going to eat you or anybody able to whip my ass as I fear no one & dare everyone to try. l.O.l

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Lightning stimulates hair growth

You stealing my name?

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Google User i'm afraid you sir are mistaken… I'm not sure what your background is, but I have dozens of installations to my credit that I have designed installed and maintained at commercial facilities in regards to lightning remediation. According to underwriters laboratories The following is the accepted way to bond and lightning protection system to the incoming utility... you'll find this also falls in line with the NEC well as other standards like MIL-STD-188-124A or Motorola R56 both of which I also employ. Excerpt Below ----- {Common Grounding and Bonding: The lightning protection system grounding system shall be bonded and connected to the grounding electrode system for the electrical service, communication system ground, any antennae system grounds, as well as underground metallic piping systems with main size lightning protection cable and connectors see exception in 10.4.2 for the utilization of ground in accordance with Articles 250, 620,800, and 810. These systems shall include the water service, well casings located within 25 feet of the structure, gas piping, underground conduits, underground liquefied petroleum gas piping etc. The connection to any utility gas line shall be on the customer’s side of the meter. The bonding conductor shall be sized the same as the main down conductor and main system conductor. 5. Basic Requirements for System Certification and the UL Master Label Certificate Program Once the system is completed, Underwriters Laboratories Field Staff can perform an on-site inspection. The system inspection begins with an overall visual inspection for neat and professional installation of the following but not limited to:  Air terminal layout and placement position with at least 2 directional paths to ground based in structure elevation, roof style, and projections as specified within the Zone of Protection.  Air terminals tips shall be a minimum of 10 inches in height above the structure spaced not more than 20 feet apart for perimeter protection  When terminals greater than 24 inches in height are used, they shall be supported at a point at least half the height the rod and be spaced more than 20 but not less than 25 feet apart for perimeter protection  Any object elevated above the normal roof height and with a surface thinner than 3/16 inch shall be protected, i.e.: exhaust fan housings, camera masts, etc.  All lightning protection system components shall be listed, except hardware screws, bolts etc.  Main size conductors shall be used for bonding the lightning protection system to other systems, including, but not limited to: metallic water systems, steam or hot water heating systems, electric services, telephone systems, antenna grounds, other large grounded metallic masses. See section 10 of UL96A for details..  The grounding terminal rod shall be at least 8 ft in length and not less than 1/2 in. dia., buried not less than 10 ft plates, concrete encased, rings and trenched systems are permitted as well.  Copper components are not mounted on aluminum or external galvanized surfaces.  Cable bend radius at corners or over the building sidewall with 90 deg minimums 8 in radiuses.  Attachment of cable secured to air terminals, and building shall be secured along the cable run and attachments shall not be more than 3 ft apart.  Aluminum components shall not be installed in direct contact of copper roof material or below any run off from copper surfaces.  Aluminum components shall not be in direct contact with earth Lightning Protection Marking and Application Guide UL and the UL logo are trademarks of UL LLC © 2016 18} www.ul.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/LightningProtectionAG.pdf

The lighting will travel from the ground to ur house back to the ground. This rod thing will provide the bath for near by strikes to find ur house

Not really!

I fail to see any reason it cannot be run outside in such a way that it can be easily worked around when redoing the roof. I wouldn't go as far to call it a complete hack job, but they definitely cut corners.

There's less water to flash to steam inside a copper cable. Less resistance too.

He's on vacation

Deductable. Be smart like Roger. Also, the Earth is Roger's domain.

Should've been the electrician, Scott.

They dug a hole

That accent is disgusting.

+Matt Justaddwata He explained it being that running it inside would preclude issues when the roof has to be inevitably redone. If it was outside, then the entire grounding system would likely have to be redone as well. Being as it is run in an out of the way location inside, the lightening is just going to travel along the cable to the ground via the path of least resistance.

because it is a continuous cable, the resistance of wood is extremely high and the electricity would already be on the cable by the time it gets inside, there's really no danger to the structure. Redirecting the strike away from building materials really only matters when the lightning is still in the air or in a metal building

yea but...i'd still want that copper cable shielded from combustable materials though

Yep, in the event of a direct strike, I’m sure that cable and hardware would get extremely hot. I would be concerned about trying to solve one problem and potentially creating a source for a house fire.

I would have wanted more separation from the copper cable to the studs personally as I would think the cable would get rather hot during a strike. If lightning did strike a house with lightning rods, I imagine that there would still be damage to the house, but the damage would most likely be lessened. Maybe having the cable in contact with the wood isn't that much of an issue. Then again I've never had any exposure to any of this.

Carl Dunne, they using hammer drill. Goes in fasssst. Less labor cost.

Also, won't that copper cabling corrode over time if it's underground and exposed to water? I was expecting them to seal it somehow.

Didn't test or didn't show the test?

A megger is not what you use to test a ground rod. In fact its a horrible way to test it. A megger is for testing motor insulation.

It goes to the grounding rod

@@AgentOffice why not connect it to the meter and run it backwards and get some of your money back!

Well said ! I also didn't care for this installation at all !

I sure wouldn't cut the power down any shorter but you can add to the ground rod by placing a rod on either side 6 or 10 feet away bonding them together. I think the key is that you only ground to one of them or each one serves one or more air terminals exclusively for instance at opposite ends of a large building or house keeping the length of the run to a bare minimum. Do not interconnect the runs from the farthest air terminal to a ground rod run to other air terminals to a ground rod runs.

@@chauvinemmons Thank you. I'll look into it more. Sounds more complicated than I imagined. You know your stuff.

I think the key is that you don't create a ground loop where you have different potentials based on the ground resistance on multiple grounds I would also say that you must keep all your runs to the ground as short as reasonably possible. This is one of those areas where you won't find a whole lot of information the whole lightning thing is like black magic the higher the air contact is the better as it protects an area around the terminal equal to the height . I'm sorry my phone does terrible things when I hit send

No, you're seeing a voltage drop when the motor starts up. A few possible causes, get an electrician to look at it though

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@@Sajin688 we’ll use this mix-cha of 3 quartah inch stone and stone dust

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KeeDx3 you are deadly wrong and still34u is 100% correct.Read my reply to the SlackerSlayer comment and replies.

@@paulm3886 It's true that the conductors don't heat up that much when charged. The only thing that gets and significant heating is the air terminal

To make sure it doesn't catch a flying kite!🪁🤣

It's a shingle roof. It *will* need to be replaced at some point.

Well if you build houses as cheap like they do in the US, its not build to replace not to last a long time.

Kind of late to the party here, but this is for others, too. Central Florida weather kills roofs pretty bad, faster than most due to the extreme weather conditions we have here. If you drive anywhere near housing here, guaranteed you’ll hear roofing nails being driven in.

The wire would heat up and expand... but slightly. Lightning's effect is nearly instantaneous; likely not enough to cause a discernible/noticeable difference in either expansion nor heat build-up. The opposite would be a tiny wire; which would not be able to carry the current and overheat and melt; an infinitely thick wire wouldn't even 'see' the current; this is somewhere in between where likely the experts have determined that X thickness of wire (read the codes on this for Class I or II; 1/0 AWG for CCA or 2AWG for Copper) is the minimum required thickness to meet the code. You can likely reach out to the writers of the code for empirical back-up on these thicknesses/diameters. I, for one, will trust their expertise and buy at least the minimum and perhaps one thicker to 'guarantee' no issues (depending upon cost up-tick, of course).

1 AGW copper is about 1 1/4 times as expensive as 2 AGW wire.

1AWG is 42.4mm^2, 2AWG is 33.6mm^2, so 26.2% increase in area - - makes sense. I would probably go the next size or two up and switch over to aluminum, depending on the cost savings from Copper-to-Aluminum. Ref: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge

except you shouldnt for the very reason aluminum wiring is nolonger used in homes: as aluminum ages the oxide layer gets larger, being an insulator this can cause a spark to form, jumping over the oxide layer, causing a fire. Copper oxides are conductive and slough off, like iron's rust.

Thanks Ben!

Lightning rods do not attract lightning. They siphon electrons off of the objects that are grounded. Therefore, not letting electrons build up to the point of leaders.

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130-150k for central florida. Im here and see these homes everyday.

A lightning protection system for a large home costs about $2000 (Copper is expensive and multiple lightning rods are required).

could you melt scrap copper wire and mold your own lightning rods for the roof to save money on expenses?

@@1chance4life76 you need multi strand copper wire because of "skin effect"

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@@yhnbgt365 Dude that's most probably not a solution.

SlackerSlayer I thought I'd heard to tie it to the copper piping as a way to dissipate it. But I expect that would be dangerous inside still.

+David Learmonth yes even tieing to the piping would be bad. say you are taking a shower and a lighting storm just happen to roll in the electricity would tavel through water and your dead

+David Learmonth But what about the fact that they ran the bare copper lighnting rod wire through the attic? & I noticed that the bare copper lightning rod's wire is butted up against the wooden framework that forms the attic. If this house is struck by lightning, the bare copper wire coming from the lightning rods is going to get hot. Since its butted uo against the wooden framwork of the attic the wood could also become hot & may cause a fire in the attic. Did anyone else notice this fire hazard?

+Adam Spears Unlikely to be a fire hazard as the electricity will move by so quickly that it's radiant heat won't be much of a fire threat. The electricity will be essentially contained to the copper cable as electricity is lazy, wanting the shortest and least resistant path to the ground, so it's not going to be jumping about as it passes along the cable. The process these guys use is an industry standard and not some hack job. Local regulations will prevent reputable contractors from doing unsafe installations, and TOH isn't going to hook up with an disreputable contractor for a demonstration.

The wire is sized to handle the very, very fast load without heating up. Additionally, lightening is high frequency electricity. It does not go through the wire, but around it much like a signal around the center conductor of a COAX cable. This is why the cable is braided so that more load can be carried around all the individual conductors, as well as to cancel out EMP with the cris-cross pattern.

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Huh?

No, The duration is about 30 microseconds and too short to locally heat up directly.

To reach an area that had more moisture, the grounding rod would not be effective in the upper sandy soil.

No resistance in soft soil. Some cases they run them sideways around the house in a trench. But if that ground is wet and you're near it when it hits. You're Wylie Coyote and his Acme rocket pack. ie toast....

A question the gay community has been asking for decades.... no answers as of yet.

Because of the Soil type the ground is less conductive. They actually make soil conductivity meters for testing soil conduction. This guys been in the business so long though that he already knows what the level of conductivity is based on soil consistency, make up, etc.

The ground rods don't HAVE to go really deep, it all depends on the type of soil. It really has to do with the amount of resistance present. There is a meter specifically to measure earth ground. I've put in great grounds in just 4-5 feet. Just because a ground rod is 20' deep, doesn't mean it's a good ground i.e loose sand is a horrible earth ground. Thing to remember if you don't have a meter is that the deeper, the safer.

That type of grounding is not effective as a deep rod into soil. The next best to a deep rod is rebar in a concrete slab, but that may crack the concrete when lightening heats the rebar and expands it.

buying a home in texas the selar has to disclose if this feature comes with the house for that reason

Copper wire doesn't require it . Aluminium conductor do .

​@@gregmartin1757in fact neither aluminum is required. Since 1983 the aluminum cables are made with aluminum alloyed AA-8000 and this cable doesn't require naolax

I was just about to asked the question if it is save to attach the copper wire to combustibles, when I read you’re “Comment” Nino Joel. I do remember as if it was yesterday, yet more than 50 years ago. I was standing at approximately 50^ 20’ 10.01” N - 8^45’28.60”E, waiting for my buddy, when a sudden lightning struck the building at Hanauer Str. 7, in Friedberg Germany (the 3rd and 1st Armored Division were stationed there). The thunder and lightning were simultaneously (even though milliseconds apart) and the ground shook. The most amazing thing I could see the energy of the strike (or a Blitz) run down the solid rod of the lightning protector (or a Blitzableiter). The energy of the strike actually turned the solid rod into a light bulb. Yes, it actually glowed like a horseshoe when it is formed by a blacksmith. There was also a strange odor / sent in the air for a while after the strike. For that experience nobody would be allowed to run a copper wire attached to combustibles through the attic of our house, nobody!!!

How would a solid length bend to pass through the eave?

Electricity travels on the outside of a conductor; therefore, having multiple small wires results in more surface area and better conductivity than a larger wire or solid conductor.