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You were lucky, very lucky. There are probably not very much survivers of a
lightning
hit like you had. In most cases the wings would explode, the controls be
point-welded stuck, you only lost some electronics, amazing, and again nice
to still have in this world. Sailplane pilots here wear parachutes, probably
because
the best thermals are close to thunderstorms?
Anyhow, i think that during the build we could try to eliminate both lightning
and ERM sensivity. Conductors from one wingtip to the other could be avoided by
adding surpressor coils i suppose? Anybody with some specialisation in that
direction? Erm pickup can be prevented by shielding and surpressing ferrites,
like you often see on computer connection wires, for the very same purpose. Also
preventing coils like loops in wires helps. I once saw a very nice panel, where
every wire going to and coming from was left extra long nicely coiled in
a perfect erm pickup arrangement. Looks great but any lightning miles away will
induce nice voltages over them and destroy any connected electronics.
And yep, we can't rely on just one single point of failure, so i will have on
top
of an efis a real compass, an altimeter and a VSI,
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