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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1035936" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Personally, I wouldn't connect a cable to the consumer unit as, as you say, that's a long run - and if there is a strike then the cable could vapourise and "set fire" to something.</p><p></p><p>However, I might be inclined to run a bonding cable from the dish mount to an earthing rod adjacent to the house so that any strike goes straight to "true ground" - which is what the strike is looking for anyway!</p><p></p><p>My TD110 is on a steel scaffolding pole in concrete which extends below the soil level, and so I think that should be reasonably OK - OTOH, the other dishes are not, and I have sometimes thought I should install an earthing rod near them and run decent-sized cables to each dish. Then again, I've lived here for 40+ yrs and (AFAIK) we've never had a strike anywhere near here (lot's of large steel-framed buildings in the general area, and I suspect they would be much more "attractive targets" for lightning strikes!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1035936, member: 176704"] Personally, I wouldn't connect a cable to the consumer unit as, as you say, that's a long run - and if there is a strike then the cable could vapourise and "set fire" to something. However, I might be inclined to run a bonding cable from the dish mount to an earthing rod adjacent to the house so that any strike goes straight to "true ground" - which is what the strike is looking for anyway! My TD110 is on a steel scaffolding pole in concrete which extends below the soil level, and so I think that should be reasonably OK - OTOH, the other dishes are not, and I have sometimes thought I should install an earthing rod near them and run decent-sized cables to each dish. Then again, I've lived here for 40+ yrs and (AFAIK) we've never had a strike anywhere near here (lot's of large steel-framed buildings in the general area, and I suspect they would be much more "attractive targets" for lightning strikes!) [/QUOTE]
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