just the cowboy
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Got the call you hate to get " your house got hit by lightning and is on fire" . It's a log home and didn't have much damage thankfully. All the led bulbs went and a modem. Look at the photo it was taken in the basement on a dusty floor and an aluminum table. Neat traces but think if the kids cat was on the floor. That is a concrete floor 10 ft from panel think there was current on the ground rod
My guess is that the lightning strike set up a huge step potential across the resistance of the concrete floor. The conductive metal legs bridged that resistance gap, so current jumped through them to short-out the areas of high potential. By Big John on ET
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My guess is that the lightning strike set up a huge step potential across the resistance of the concrete floor. The conductive metal legs bridged that resistance gap, so current jumped through them to short-out the areas of high potential. By Big John on ET
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