[Rhodes22-list] advice on ground for battery

[Lou Rosenberg]

  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
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>   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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