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How Lightning Surge Protection Devices Protect Against Indirect Strikes

LEC’s lightning surge protection device offering integrates innovative designs, modern features, and proprietary technology, protecting against sudden and momentary transients, as well as long-term exposure to Temporary Over Voltages (TOVs). All these benefits are part of our superior performance when it comes to the SPD offering, plus max surge ratings and compliance with key industry standards, including IEC, UL, and more. Connect with us to learn more: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Lightning Protection – What You Need To Know

Lightning protection systems are used to prevent or lessen lightning strike damage to buildings. Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. have been at the forefront of industrial lightning protection systems for the past five decades and have the product and expertise to protect any facility from a lightning strike. Get protected today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Do We Really Require Lightning Rod Protection?

A surge protective device (SPD) is designed to protect electrical systems and equipment from surge and transient events by limiting transient voltages and diverting surge currents. Together they are the perfect pair for lightning rod protection. Lightning Eliminators and Consultant’s best lightning rod protection system is respected as the industry-leading solution and is installed on thousands of towers, buildings, plants, and factories. Contact us: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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How Lightning Surge Protection Devices Protect Against Indirect Strikes

LEC’s lightning surge protection device offering integrates innovative designs, modern features, and proprietary technology, protecting against sudden and momentary transients, as well as long-term exposure to Temporary Over Voltages (TOVs). All these benefits are part of our superior performance when it comes to the SPD offering, plus max surge ratings and compliance with key industry standards, including IEC, UL, and more. Connect with us to learn more: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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How To Protect Your Facility From Lightning Damage?

Consider the safety issues, costs, and potential lightning damage if you do not have a proper protection system. These ten questions should help you get started evaluating your potential need for lightning protection. Lightning protection systems require a systematic and comprehensive approach to minimizing threats. Ask us how: https://www.lightningprotection.com/damage-caused-by-lightning-strikes/

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4 Reasons That Highlight The Importance Of Lightning Protection Design System

For over 50 years, LEC has been installing DAS lightning protection design systems to prevent lightning-related damage to sites varying in size from a single tower to an area close to 1.5 square kilometers. Connect with us to know how DAS pays for itself: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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How To Protect Your Facility From Lightning Damage?

Consider the safety issues, costs, and potential lightning damage if you do not have a proper protection system. These ten questions should help you get started evaluating your potential need for lightning protection. Lightning protection systems require a systematic and comprehensive approach to minimizing threats. Ask us how: https://www.lightningprotection.com/damage-caused-by-lightning-strikes/

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Lightning Protection – What You Need To Know

Lightning protection systems are used to prevent or lessen lightning strike damage to buildings. Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. have been at the forefront of industrial lightning protection systems for the past five decades and have the product and expertise to protect any facility from a lightning strike. Get protected today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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How Lightning Surge Protection Devices Protect Against Indirect Strikes

LEC’s lightning surge protection device offering integrates innovative designs, modern features, and proprietary technology, protecting against sudden and momentary transients, as well as long-term exposure to Temporary Over Voltages (TOVs). All these benefits are part of our superior performance when it comes to the SPD offering, plus max surge ratings and compliance with key industry standards, including IEC, UL, and more. Connect with us to learn more: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Do We Really Require Lightning Rod Protection?

A surge protective device (SPD) is designed to protect electrical systems and equipment from surge and transient events by limiting transient voltages and diverting surge currents. Together they are the perfect pair for lightning rod protection. Lightning Eliminators and Consultant’s best lightning rod protection system is respected as the industry-leading solution and is installed on thousands of towers, buildings, plants, and factories. Contact us: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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4 Reasons That Highlight The Importance Of Lightning Protection Design System

For over 50 years, LEC has been installing DAS lightning protection design systems to prevent lightning-related damage to sites varying in size from a single tower to an area close to 1.5 square kilometers. Connect with us to know how DAS pays for itself: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Do We Really Require Lightning Rod Protection?

The answer is a simple YES.

Reason:

The world has change drastically with the rapid progression of technology but lightning protection for such advancement has not change since Benjamin Franklin’s invention in 1750.

Increased equipment vulnerability due to migration from era of Electrical/Analog to Digital/Electronics

Increased dependency on automation and artificial intelligence demands "zero" downtime

Requirement of system reliability for continuous critical operations

Solution:

By installing a Dissipation Array System, patented by LEC, you can limit the build-up of static charge in the area of protection and discourage secondary and EMP effects, damage to equipment, and disruptions in operations caused by direct or nearby lightning strikes, thereby enhancing site reliability.

The DAS comprises of 3 major components: the Ionizer, Down Conductor, and Ground Electrode. Under the influence of the thunderstorm, the DAS continuously transfers charges from the surface of the earth up to the Ionizer, dissipating these charges into the air to create corona space charges above the protected facility. This corona space charge provides a shielding effect for the objects of protection from the influence of the electric field generated by the storm. The lightning rod protection principle is to suppress or delay the formation of upward streamers generated from the protected facility. This makes the facility the least potential position to generate a counter leader, a necessary precursor to a complete lightning termination. No counter leaders, no lightning termination.

The importance of the lightning rod protection system lies in the protection of human lives, physical structures, and equipment, so when is the best time to plan for lightning rod protection?

During Construction

During the Examination Of the Structure

During Path-to-Ground Testing

During Soil Resistivity Testing

Did you know that lightning rod protection ensures how to properly place air terminals, run cable, ground, and bond in order to ensure maximum safety in this energy transfer and dissipation? While A surge protective device (SPD) is designed to protect electrical systems and equipment from surge and transient events by limiting transient voltages and diverting surge currents. Together they are the perfect pair for lightning rod protection.

Lightning Eliminators and Consultant’s best lightning rod protection system is respected as the industry-leading solution and is installed on thousands of towers, buildings, plants, and factories.

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How To Protect Your Facility From Lightning Damage?

Wildfires in open fields and forests across the USA capture the news for their widespread devastation, but fires in the facility may be your biggest concern. Over the years 18% of lightning fires occurred in facilities, but these accounted for 70% of the direct property damage, which equated to $407 million.

In addition to human safety from lightning damage, you must also consider facility protection to safeguard company investments, such as building structures and valuable electronic equipment. Death or injury is the most extreme danger associated with lightning. This natural phenomenon causes many other issues, including:

Facility downtime

Damaged electrical and technological equipment

Lost revenue

Data loss due to equipment downtime

While fires caused by lightning strikes aren’t considered human-created, available technology can decrease the number of fire disasters caused by lightning. The general factors to consider include the level of risk lightning poses to personnel, equipment, structural damage, and the consequential problems of a lightning-produced failure. Ask these questions to assess your need for a lightning protection system to minimize lightning damage. Assessment of these factors is one of judgment in comparing risks, economics, and aesthetics.

What is the risk to personnel? 

What is the risk of equipment or structural damage? 

What are the consequential problems of such failure? 

Is the equipment associated with an essential or public service? 

Is there likely to be substantial revenue loss in the time required to restore services? 

Is the structure of historical importance? 

What are the legal implications of providing inadequate protection?

Can the passage of a discharge in the structure or building give rise to side flashing or simple sparks in an explosive or flammable environment?

Can side flashing between metallic structures cause lightning damage to essential electronics?

Will the discharge give rise to corona phenomena causing disastrous surges on the phase wires of electric lines or a breakdown in transformer stations?

Consider the safety issues, costs, and potential lightning damage if you do not have a proper protection system. These ten questions should help you get started evaluating your potential need for lightning protection. 

Lightning protection systems require a systematic and comprehensive approach to minimizing threats. Ask us how.

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Lightning Protection – What You Need To Know

The modern industrial business landscape is one that relies heavily on technologically advanced, mission-specific equipment in order to perform critical tasks. Most times, they provide only minimal levels of protection against the elements, leaving them open to potential damage from both natural and manmade sources – violent electrical storms and lightning strikes, nor the resulting power surges, which account for a large percentage of damage to critical components in the field.

Lightning protection systems are used to prevent or lessen lightning strike damage to buildings. They protect the internal electrical components of a building, helping to prevent fires or electrocution. Lightning protection comes in the form of a lightning conductor, usually a metal rod, mounted on a building to protect it from lightning strikes. The system will intercept a strike, so if lightning hits the building, the lightning rod will be hit first, causing the strike to be conducted through a wire and passing through to the ground safely.

This is the traditional method of lightning protection. The more modern approach is called a Dissipation Array System, developed and patented by LEC. DAS does not attract the lightning. This system lowers the static field in the protected area long enough for the lightning strike to terminate outside the protected area. In other words, it prevents upward-rising lightning leaders (or streamers) from being created on the protected structure. Without these upward-rising leaders, which are essential for lightning collection, the lightning will not be able to hit that structure.

Our products protect:

Remote radio head architectures (these support the implementation of 4G and 5G networks). These systems ensure network uptime and preserve the carrier’s budgets allocated for maintenance and repairs.

Electric supply lines. These lightning protection systems are deployed at multiple points along the power supply cables and connection points to mitigate the risk to the equipment caused due to an electrical surge. They regulate the flow of electricity and keep the systems online without failure.

Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. have been at the forefront of industrial lightning protection systems for the past five decades and have the product and expertise to protect any facility from a lightning strike. 

Get protected today!

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4 Reasons That Highlight The Importance Of Lightning Protection Design System

A single lightning strike can be a disaster for a business or community if it disrupts mission-critical operations.

Fortunately, lightning-related disruptions and damage can be prevented by using technologies now available. A properly designed and integrated system of low resistance/low impedance facility grounding, potential equalization, and SPDs can effectively protect today’s digital systems, while a structural lightning protection design system protects the building that houses them.

A Lightning protection design system is a series of devices that are designed to protect buildings and other structures from lightning strikes. These systems typically consist of lightning rods, conductors, and grounding equipment, which work together to safely channel the electrical current from a lightning strike away from the structure and into the ground.

Here are 4 reasons that highlight the importance of LPS:

Protect people – a direct strike is what most people think of when it comes to lightning safety, but a side flash from surrounding objects such as trees or structures can be just as dangerous.

Protect against fire – the threat from fire caused by lightning is double-fold. A lightning strike can spark a fire within a building itself, or it could spark a wildfire that can threaten entire communities.

Protect against structural damage – an average lightning strike has enough energy to destroy roofs and walls (even those made of strong materials such as brick and concrete), as well as pierce gas piping that could cause a structural fire.

Protect against damage to internal systems and equipment – a single lightning strike can carry up to 300 million volts of electrical energy, which can easily overwhelm the electrical circuitry and systems found in modern buildings. The more technology incorporated into buildings (computers, televisions, etc.), the more damage an electrical surge could cause.

Expenses for protection systems are assumed to be high. This adversely harms the business case for investing in a lightning protection design system and turns away facility managers before they even consider the invaluable benefits that an LPS would provide.

For over 50 years, LEC has been installing DAS lightning protection design systems to prevent lightning-related damage to sites varying in size from a single tower to an area close to 1.5 square kilometers. Connect with us to know how DAS pays for itself!

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How Lightning Surge Protection Devices Protect Against Indirect Strikes

In some cases, customers can ask for lightning protection only, with the assumption that lightning protection alone will provide all the protection they need. If a site doesn’t have proper grounding and bonding in place, the earth's potential rise caused by a lightning strike may result in arcing and side flashing between metallic objects on the site and cause damage to the electrical equipment. Costs can range from degradation of electrical or electronic systems to data loss and equipment destruction. Some of these costs can appear relatively minor, but the loss of an essential service or revenue associated with a facility or plant shutdown can be enormous. The lightning protection and grounding systems dissipate most of the energy to the earth. However, residual energy can still harm sensitive electronic systems, which is why the implementation of lightning surge protection devices is equally important.

Secondly, anytime you have a wire coming into a building from the outside world, that wire is perfectly capable of delivering all types of mischief into the facility. This is why lightning surge protection devices should be installed. 

An SPD is a device that becomes conductive at some voltage. As the potential rises and the SPD becomes conductive, it shunts the surge back to where it came. This is required by NFPA 780 and UL both on all services where they enter the structure (AC power, telephone, RF, data, etc.)

Here are 3 quick surge protection tips that you as a facility owner, need to know:

Use point-of-use surge protection devices (SPDs), which protect electronics and appliances when combined with a good grounding system.

Have a professional check to ensure that the grounding system is up to code before installing any new lightning surge protection device.

Explore the option of panel SPDs, which mount in or on the main electrical panel to provide protection for the entire electrical system.

LEC’s lightning surge protection devices offering integrates innovative designs, modern features, and proprietary technology, protecting against sudden and momentary transients, as well as long-term exposure to Temporary Over Voltages (TOVs). All these benefits are part of our superior performance when it comes to the SPD offering, plus max surge ratings and compliance with key industry standards, including IEC, UL, and more.

Connect with us to learn more.

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Lightning Protection – What You Need To Know

Lightning protection systems are used to prevent or lessen lightning strike damage to buildings. Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. have been at the forefront of industrial lightning protection systems for the past five decades and have the product and expertise to protect any facility from a lightning strike. Get protected today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/