Lightning Rod Protection For Safe Lightning Dissipation

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A lightning rod is connected via a low-resistance wire or cable to the earth or water below, where the charge may be safely dissipated. 

As a storm intensifies, it gets electrically charged; a lightning strike occurs when this cloud neutralizes itself with the ground. Any structure that sits between the cloud and ground gets charged and is damaged in the process. Thus a lightning rod protection is installed on the roof of buildings for protection.

Lightning can "jump around" when it strikes. This "jumping" is associated with the electrical potential of the strike target with respect to the earth's potential. The lightning can strike and then "seek" a path of least resistance by jumping around to nearby objects that provide a better path to ground. If the strike occurs near the lightning rod protection system, the system will have a very low-resistance path and can then receive a "jump," diverting the strike current to ground before it can do any more damage.

A lightning strike carries more than 200,000 amps of current; so even if the lightning rod sends 99.9% of the current directly to the ground there is still 0.1% amps that flows through the building; which is a lot. This minimum amount of amps has the capacity to cause personal injury and destroy assets through fire, explosion, and electrical damage.

Given this destructive nature of lightning strike, LEC has patented a revolutionary technology that can prevent the electrical charge from forming in the first place.

Lightning rods are now built with DAS (Dissipated Array System) technology.  This technology has:

·         99.7% reliability

·         Reduced lightning risk significantly

·         The ability to prevent accidents from stray currents as well

·         It works on the principles of charge transfer and has proven to neutralize the electrically charged cloud thus preventing the strike from occurring.

·         Dissipate the lightning energy into the ground with minimum rise in ground potential

·         Protect equipment from surges and transients to prevent equipment damage and costly operational down time

·         Not cause sparking which may lead to fire or explosion nor cause any mechanical damage to the structure

Lightning Eliminators and Consultants Inc. has lightning rod protection systems based on state of the art engineering principles and physics. With patented products and over 50 years of experience, we have been protecting companies from disaster and loss.

Contact us and get protected.

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