Lightning Protection Systems for Complete Industrial Property Security

While lightning may seem rare, USA alone receives an average of over 2.2 million flashes to ground each year, and a single bolt of lightning has enough power to peak at 100 million volts of electricity. That much electricity surging through an office or industrial plant at once can be catastrophic for electrical systems and permanently destroy your most expensive electronics.

Security for today’s commercial & industrial properties

Schools, hospitals, airports, factories, chemical plants, power generating plants and office buildings are just some of the facilities choosing to play it safe against destructive forces of lightning by installing lightning protection systems. Like fire alarms, sprinklers and security systems, a lightning protection system provides the peace of mind that comes from knowing that a potentially catastrophic problem has been dealt with proactively.

A properly installed lightning protection system safe-guards a business structurally and also protects property, inventory, electronic equipment and personnel from the destructive forces of lightning.

National and International lightning protection standards now stress the need for a comprehensive solution that encompasses both structural lightning and electronic systems protection through using Surge Protection Devices.

These standards are the reason why we advocate our total solution to earthing and lightning protection. Our approach delivers effective life safety, together with long-lasting, reliable protection for both structures and critical electronic systems.

Most lightning protection systems are interception systems that don’t reduce the odds that lightning will strike a facility. Instead, they mitigate the risks of a lightning strike by controlling and attempt to disperse the energy they create. These systems are intended to guide the lightning discharge safely to the ground, ideally without impacting anything inside.

However, other newer and more effective lightning protection systems work differently.

Like LEC’s Dissipation Array Systems.

They use a charge dissipation terminal to release the static building up near the facility during thunderstorms. Without that charge, a streamer cannot form. Therefore, the whole area is an unappealing target for lightning, and it will instead strike somewhere outside of the range of the system, where it can meet a streamer.

We offer a wide range of lightning and overvoltage protection solutions:

• Internal protection (surge and overvoltage protection devices).
• External protection (DAS, SBI, SDAT, and RGA)
• Grounding systems.
• Consultancy services.

We are a pioneer in the design and manufacture of lightning and surge protection devices. For over 50 years and counting, LEC has been providing high quality solutions and products using the latest most innovative technology.

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