General Discussion

Hi Martin I trust you do not consider me a know all, but having left the Royal Air Force I was employed by the Post Office / BT as a telephone engineer and during that period when I was up the pole and down the hole I witnessed at first hand the power of lightning on several occasions. I recall being called out to a Cabinet (Green junction box where the exchange side meets the distribution side of the network.) On opening the doors of the cabinet I was met with a melted mess of copper wires with plastic insulation. The solution, cut the tails out, draw in new trails and start over. The cause, was traced back to a near bye church where the lightning had struck the church tower, followed the lightning rods into the ground and on the way down had met a drop wire going into the church and from there travelled into a u/g jointing post and the rest as they say is history.