[Rhodes22-list] advice on ground for battery
Lou Rosenberg
lsr3 at MAIL.nyu.edu
Tue Nov 2 17:28:43 EST 2004
Ed K
The more I think about it the more I see your reasoning and might
just put it off as the boat needs many other items to make it
seaworthy.
Thanks
Lou
>Lou,
> Wasn't your boat sailed on LIS before you got it? I thought that
>the water on the sound was salty. So for how many years was your boat
>sailed under conditions similar to what you plan without a lightning strike.
>So now you are going to try to improve the chances of a hit? Put this
>project off until you have sailed the boat for a season. Quit fretting over
>the things that just are not going to happen.
>
>Ed K
>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] advice on ground for battery
>
> Rik,
> with so much of my interior being fixed and ripped up it just makes
>sense to go ahead and do the HD wiring as per the PS article which
>confers with Casey's book on electronics.
> thanks
> sail safe
> Lou
>
>
>
>>Lou,
>>
>>My reason for asking was that in most of the articles I have read on
>>this sublect, grounding was found to be effective enough in salt
>>water to be worth doing. Even still some question the effectiveness.
>>Seems about a 50/50 thing as to whether it really works or not. In
>>fresh water, there is not much of a chance for it to work at all,
>>due to the much poorer conductivity of the water.
>>
>>So, I guess you just have to do what makes sense to you and hope for the
>best.
>>
>>Rik
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