Re: 30 amp Pedestal question

Steve Wolf wrote:
The article delves significantly deeper than "which is highest". The tree will get zapped and the pole won't 'cause it's higher. That's cute.

Also accurate.

"Often, cloud-to-ground lightning bolts strike the highest object, like the top of a building or the top of a tall tree. If a person is the highest object in the lightning bolt's path, the lightning may strike the person."

If you want to quibble with that statement: forecast@xxxxxxxxxx

Put several hundred million volts on a tree and see what the potential is between the RV and the post as the charge dissipates. Work through Ohms law with ten to one hundred kiloamperes running for ground.

Forget the verbose bull*** and stick with lightning strikes. Many variables involved including moisture content of the tree and the earth at the time.

It really is a neat article. Page 40. February. QST.

I'm sure your perusal of an article greatly outweighs the knowledge I gained attending 2 weather schools and spending 18 years in the weather career field.
LZ

Then I question the knowledge of the author. If the tree is taller than the pole and contains more moisture, it will be zapped and the pole won't be. Lightning follows the best conductor.
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