Lightning Protection System – Protect your Assets from Lightning Damage

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Lightning Protection Systems
Protect your Assets from Lightning Damage
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Lightning is a final result of the natural
creation of an electrical charge imbalance in the
Earths atmosphere. Lightning occurs both within
the atmosphere, cloud-to-cloud lightning, and
from the atmosphere to the earth, sky to ground
lightning or the reverse, ground to sky
discharge. Regardless of the direction of the
lightning stroke, a great deal of energy is
released as the electrical charge balance of the
atmosphere-earth is restored. An average
lightning strike consists of three strokes, with
a peak current flow of 18,000 amperes for the
first impulse and about half that amount of
current flowing in the second and third
strokes. A lightning protection system is
designed to protect a structure from damage due
to lightning strikes.
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Lightning protection components at a glance

• An air terminal, down conductor, and at least one
  ground plate or rod for each beacon tower, should
  be installed.
• The air terminal should be installed at the top
  of the tower with the tip of the rod extending
  not less than 150 mm (6 in) above the top of the
  beacon.
• Down-conductor cables should be securely fastened
  to the surface of the tower leg with suitable
  bronze fasteners having bronze or noncorrosive
  metal bolts. Sharp turns or bends in the down
  conductor are not permitted.
• All connections of cable-to-cable, cable-to-air
  terminals, and cable-to-ground plates or rods
  must be made with solder less connectors or
  noncorrosive metal.
• The down-conductor cable shall be securely
  attached to ground rods or plates. The ground rod
  shall be driven into the ground so that the top
  is at least 150 mm (6 in) below grade. The
  down-conductor shall be firmly attached to the
  ground plate or rod by means of a ground
  connector or clamp.

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How to reduce lightning damage by lowering the
incidence of a direct lightning strike to
buildings, communication towers, electric utility
substations, industrial facilities, etc?

• By using a powerful tool like
• Charge Dissipation - This is a scientific process
  first touched on by Benjamin Franklin more than
  two centuries ago. However, since then, and most
  notably over the last twenty years, the
  technology of static charge dissipation has
  developed to the point where damage to electronic
  equipment can be reduced or eliminated, depending
  on the site protection systems selected. Many
  sites have never had a recurrence of a direct
  lightning after installing a properly engineered
  lightning production system.
• Today, there are several types of code-compliant
  lightning protection systems in use, and they
  should always be installed by trusted and
  certified lightning protection companies like
  Lightning Eliminators.

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Contact Us

• Business name Lightning Eliminators
  Consultants, Inc.
• Address 6687 Arapahoe Rd. Boulder, CO 80303,
  USA
• Phone [phone]
• Email info_at_lecglobal.com
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