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Protecting Your Industrial Assets - Lightning Protection System

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A lightning protection system provides the peace of mind that comes from knowing that a potentially catastrophic problem has been dealt with proactively. A lightning protection system is designed to protect a structure from damage by intercepting these strikes and safely passing their extremely high voltage to ground. Today, nearly every industrial site has sensitive computer-based components. These components are connected with power lines and data transfer lines for them to work effectively and perform their duties. Often times these components are isolated from each other but still connected by copper power cables and housed within the same structure. If a lightning strike were to affect any component in the chain, it will open an entire system of interconnected components to catastrophic failure. Our defensive is called a  lightning protection system .  A combination of systems that when installed in and around these facilities, attempt to either dissipate the strike to another are