4 Essential Lightning Protection Products
Franklin’s lightning rods have been used as a means of collecting and controlling the awesome and destructive power of lightning. But is it wise to allow thousands of amperes to flow near sensitive electronic equipment, especially when charge transfer systems (CTSs) are available and can prevent strikes in protected areas? With businesses around the world installing 500 such systems per year, it's a concept worth investigating. In 1971, Roy B. Carpenter Jr. came across the CTS technology while working for the United States Air Force. Carpenter was a chief engineer for the first space shuttle design team. After leaving the USAF, he expanded and patented CTS into the dissipation array system (DAS). It wasn't until the early 1990s that the theory behind DAS advanced and developed into the CTSs available today. Let us look at some of the lightning protection products available with CTS technology: The Dissipation Array System (DAS) is one of the most common configurations of a Cha