How Do You Install A Lightning Rod?
A lightning rod is designed to give lightning a safe path through which to travel if a bolt happens to hit your house. Damage is caused by a direct hit; a lightning rod takes the lightning along a path into the ground, where it is dispersed without harm to the building or its inhabitants. Here are some tips on installation. Determine where your groundings will be. Depending on the size of your house, you will need at least two. If your house is larger in perimeter than 250 feet but less than 350, you need three groundings. If the perimeter is between 350 and 450 feet, you need four, and so on. The groundings should be at opposite corners of the house, if you can arrange it that way. Place lightning rods at regular intervals, preferably 20 feet apart, at most. The end rods should be installed within at least one foot of the end of the roof, though two feet, at most, is acceptable. Add cable clamps, or fasteners, about every three feet. You can run conductor cables along and down molding
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