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The car/vehicle is not 'grounded' other than the chassis, engine block, etc all being linked to the negative of the battery. That said, if struck, lighting will travel around the body and through the frame to ground. It is possible to jump from the frame of the car to the earth. This faraday cage effect happens with hardtop vehicles, as the hardtop is usually what is struck (sorry convertibles).What I don’t get is how was the car grounded? Shouldn’t the tires offer enough of a buffer that the actual ground would be a shorter path?
I get that, but there is no direct link from chassis to ground. There is an air gap. Wouldn’t it just be a path of lesser resistance to skip going thru the truck and just hit the ground?The car is not 'grounded' other than the chassis, engine block, etc all being linked to the negative of the battery. That said, if struck, lighting will travel around the body and through the frame to ground. It is possible to jump from the frame of the car to the earth.
Agreed - but there is also an air gap from the cloud to the ground. Being that the body, frame, etc of the vehicle is part of an individual and available electrical ground, it may be the lesser resistance at that given moment. Also, the more objects on that vehicle that are available for ground, the less the potential rises across all available objects.I get that, but there is no direct link from chassis to ground. There is an air gap. Wouldn’t it just be a path of lesser resistance to skip going thru the truck and just hit the ground?
Just read this ️https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-cars1.21 GIGAWATTS
Yep I get that much. I just always assumed tires would be more resistance than air.Lightening / electricity ….one way or another with find ground.
Because of the tires, the vehicle has an independent electrical circuit - and lightning will flow to the ground side of that electrical circuit. If struck by lightning, the lightning can also then jump from the frame to the earth (earth ground).I just realized I know very little about lightning. The safety a car offers is just the faraday cage like effect. I was alway lead to believe the tires prevented the car from grounding itself.
What I read was the steel belting of the tires helps it get close to the ground and then it melts the rubberBecause of the tires, the electrical circuit is the ground side of the circuit .. but lightning can also jump from the frame to the earth (earth ground).
Considering the steel belts are not part of the vehicle ground, it would have to jump from the frame to the belts - but that is possible as well. I'm not sure if that's a quicker way to ground though.What I read was the steel belting of the tires helps it get close to the ground and then it melts the rubber
That's crazy, looks like it was sliced with a hot knife.
Omg love me some Termi Cobras especially the MystichromeAmazing vehicles, not great as a “truck” lol but I loved them. Also the 03 cobra…
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