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Title: Some Lightning info
Post by: Tom WA3KLR on June 05, 2007, 12:29:08 PM
Example - Cool Lightning Facts
*  Most lightning strikes average 2 to 3 miles long and carry a current of 10000 Amps at 100 million Volts!
*  Lightning temperatures can reach 30,000 degrees Celsius! Five times hotter than the sun!

The following links on Lightning were pointed out in the latest e-mail issue of Interference Technology June 2007:

http://www.nexteklightning.com/enews/coolfacts.htm

http://www.uic.edu/labs/lightninginjury/ltnfacts.htm
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