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Madison Co. Virginia | I'm pricing and researching the possibility of putting a point-to-point wireless bridge on the top of a 80-foot stave silo. I'd be running two pvc conduits up the exposed face of the silo, likely using metal zip-ties to fasten them to the safety cage around the ladder. One conduit would have a cat6 ethernet cable, and the other would have a common 12-2 Romex feeding an outlet at the top of the silo.
How much risk am I taking with lightning? I've never been aware of lightning hitting this silo, but I assume the possibility exists. Is there anything I can do to inexpensively minimize the risk of lightning strikes affecting my wiring and equipment?
For that matter, if that ethernet cable is directly attached to a computer at the base of the silo, is that computer 'no-bueno' the moment there's a lightning strike? | |
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Lightning risks with installing ethernet cable on silo
