Ground Breaking Technology in Lightning Rod Protection

-

 Benjamin Franklin was attracted to electricity. Given its similar colour, crackle, and configuration, he suspected that lightning itself was electricity. He further noted that a pointed metal needle could draw electricity from a charged metal sphere, which came to be known as lightning rod.


To protect one self, the implementation of a system of protection against lightning is needed.


Today, more than two-and-a-half centuries later, lightning rod protection persist—as decorative architectural pieces, as vestiges of the past, and as mitigators of lightning’s power. These rods are known by many names: air terminals, finials, lightning conductors, or strike-termination devices.


Today every building is equipped with many sensitive electronic systems thus they need to be protected from any unforeseen damage from lightning strikes. This is the reason more people are considering lightning rod protection than ever before. And as every structure is vulnerable to lightning damage, a lightning rod is installed on the roof of every building – schools, hospitals, health care facilities, airports, shopping centres, office buildings, manufacturing units, etc.



This rod requires proper grounding for efficient and safe dispersing of a large amount of energy from a lightning strike. Failure to provide adequate grounding will result in ineffective lightning rod protection to property and human life. Different techniques are used to ensure that the rod has strong electrical connections to the ground.


In the past, people favored Franklin air terminals—rods that come to a point at the top. Now the scenario has changed. With the advancement in technology, years of experiments and numerous tests in laboratory and in real lightning conditions as necessary; LEC has developed and patented Dissipation Array System (DAS). Unlike the lightning rod which attracts and grounds the lightning the DAS charge transfer technology, eliminates the lightning strike within the protected zone.


DAS -is based on Physics and state-of-the-art engineering. It reduces the naturally occurring electric field within a protected area – the upward streamer does not get enough energy from a storm to connect with downward leaders. This point discharge becomes more efficient when connected to a low impedance grounding system as more ions can be transferred.



Without any fragile priming system, we designed the most reliable and sustainable lightning protection product on the market and also extend a full no strike warranty for DAS clients.


With patented products and over 46 years of experience, we have been protecting a number of global 1000 companies from disaster and loss.


Contact us to know more about our ground breaking technology.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Importance Of Maintaining A Lightning Rod Protection System

-
Lightning rods must undergo periodic inspections and maintenance, as indicated by national and international regulations. These periodic inspections allow the detection of deviation from reference standards or anomalies in the installations caused by environmental conditions such as corrosion, incorrect handling or expansion of the building where the lighting rod protection is installed.  Maintenance of an effective lightning rod protection system is essential due to the following: -    Efficiently dissipate heavy fault currents and electrical surges, both in magnitude and duration, to protect equipment being damaged so as to minimize downtime, service interruptions and replacement costs -    Provide a stable reference for electrical and RF circuits at the installation to minimize noise during normal operations -    Protection of personnel who work within the area from dangerous electrical shocks For a lightning rod protection system to work optimally, each and every part needs to be i
Read more

Lightning Protection Products You Never Knew You Needed

-
Image
Dissipation Systems are designed to prevent lightning strikes. These refer to devices using point discharge phenomena to retard and reduce the potential of lightning strikes on their protected devices. Choosing the appropriate lightning protection products for a specific application requires several performance issues to be considered, such as the radius of the dissipater electrode cross-section, the construction material of the dissipater, the number and density of electrodes, and the configuration of the dissipater on the structure it is designed to protect.  The Dissipation Array System (or DAS) is a lightning prevention system. Well, it doesn’t prevent lightning from happening altogether, but it does prevent lightning from striking the protected structure. There is a lot of detail on how it does this, but the simple version is that it lowers the electrostatic field in the protected zone. This prevents upward-rising lightning leaders (or streamers) from being created on the pro
Read more

Prevent Electrical Disturbances With Lightning Surge Protection Devices

-
Image
  We are Pioneers in: ·          Lightning Protection System ·          Chemical Earthing Installations ·          Lightning Surge Protection Devices Let’s talk about our patented lightning surge protection devices . The term surge protection device (SPD) describes electrical devices typically installed in power distribution panels, process control systems, communications systems, and other heavy-duty industrial systems, for protection against electrical surges and spikes, including those caused by lightning.  When clean, uninterrupted power is crucial, LEC’s next-generation surge protection devices are ready to provide the highest level of performance for the safety and reliability of your electrical systems. These devices are able to accomplish two tasks for protection, i.e., surge voltage in terms of amplitude needs to be limited and discharge of the surge voltage to the ground, which is done without causing any damage to the devices.  Lightning Surge Protection Devic
Read more