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Tying knots in power cables to prevent power surge from lightning strikes

A coiled mains cable behaives like a 'common-mode' inductor, Ligtning behaives a little like an impulse - if you could take the FFT of a lightning strike, it would have quite a large bandwidth. … A coil in the line may have some impact against the common mode, high-frequency component of the lightning and there may be some benifit in the form of reduced energy avaliable, but knoting the cables …
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