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What Can Be Done To Provide Lightning Rod Protection?

The use of specialized lightning rod protection equipment is the most effective way to reduce the risk of damage to infrastructure or fires and explosions caused by lightning. LEC specializes in providing comprehensive solutions designed to address the lightning challenges faced by manufacturing industries. Our team of experts brings a deep understanding of the industry and technical expertise in lightning protection and risk mitigation. LEC technical development superiority, consulting services, and lightning rod protection solutions are customized for each client. Contact us: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Protect Your Facility From Lightning Damage With DAS

By dissipating lightning strikes, LEC engineers can help protect your mining facilities from lightning damage. Lightning Eliminators provides various services. The necessary services are dependent on your company’s requirement against lightning damage. They can be as simple as a technical review or as extensive as a site survey. An LEC sales associate will be able to help you determine what your needs are. Connect today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/3-effects-of-lightning-damage/

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Protect Your Facility From Lightning Damage With DAS

By dissipating lightning strikes, LEC engineers can help protect your mining facilities from lightning damage. Lightning Eliminators provides various services. The necessary services are dependent on your company’s requirement against lightning damage. They can be as simple as a technical review or as extensive as a site survey. An LEC sales associate will be able to help you determine what your needs are. Connect today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/3-effects-of-lightning-damage/

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Lightning Surge Protection Devices That Ensure Uninterrupted Manufacturing Processes

Lightning Surge protection devices are needed to alleviate all transient and surge concerns. LEC has UL-listed products like Facility Guard, Transient Limiters, DC surge protectors, etc. Connect with our lightning eliminator specialist to find out more about our lightning surge protection devices for your facility that will safeguard your infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted operations, protecting valuable equipment, and prioritizing the safety of the workforce, even in the face of nature’s most powerful and unpredictable electrical phenomenon. Connect with us: https://www.lightningprotection.com/surge-protection-devices-can-they-solve-all-surge-problems/

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A Different, Innovative Approach To Lightning Protection

Lightning protection performs an important and imperative function in the energy and electric power sectors, helping companies avoid the downtime and restoration costs that come with outages. Several companies have found that traditional lightning protection tends to create more issues than solutions and have opted to implement a solution based on charge transfer technology. Lightning Eliminators has provided critical solutions for numerous electric power facilities over the past 50-plus years. Get your lightning protection customized solution today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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3 Steps Tailored Solutions To Lightning Protection Design

Power generation facilities need lightning protection design. Each year, a multitude of electric power facilities are knocked off-line due to lightning. However, what is less known is that on a bright and sunshiny day, when there is no lightning in sight, and the power goes out and/or operations shut down, it can also be due to lightning - more accurately, the repercussions of previous lightning strikes, which occurred months earlier! Protect your facility today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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What Can Be Done To Provide Lightning Rod Protection?

The use of specialized lightning rod protection equipment is the most effective way to reduce the risk of damage to infrastructure or fires and explosions caused by lightning. LEC specializes in providing comprehensive solutions designed to address the lightning challenges faced by manufacturing industries. Our team of experts brings a deep understanding of the industry and technical expertise in lightning protection and risk mitigation. LEC technical development superiority, consulting services, and lightning rod protection solutions are customized for each client. Contact us: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Protect Your Facility From Lightning Damage With DAS

By dissipating lightning strikes, LEC engineers can help protect your mining facilities from lightning damage. Lightning Eliminators provides various services. The necessary services are dependent on your company’s requirement against lightning damage. They can be as simple as a technical review or as extensive as a site survey. An LEC sales associate will be able to help you determine what your needs are. Connect today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/3-effects-of-lightning-damage/

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Lightning Surge Protection Devices That Ensure Uninterrupted Manufacturing Processes

Lightning Surge protection devices are needed to alleviate all transient and surge concerns. LEC has UL-listed products like Facility Guard, Transient Limiters, DC surge protectors, etc. Connect with our lightning eliminator specialist to find out more about our lightning surge protection devices for your facility that will safeguard your infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted operations, protecting valuable equipment, and prioritizing the safety of the workforce, even in the face of nature’s most powerful and unpredictable electrical phenomenon. Connect with us: https://www.lightningprotection.com/surge-protection-devices-can-they-solve-all-surge-problems/

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A Different, Innovative Approach To Lightning Protection

Lightning protection performs an important and imperative function in the energy and electric power sectors, helping companies avoid the downtime and restoration costs that come with outages. Several companies have found that traditional lightning protection tends to create more issues than solutions and have opted to implement a solution based on charge transfer technology. Lightning Eliminators has provided critical solutions for numerous electric power facilities over the past 50-plus years. Get your lightning protection customized solution today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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3 Steps Tailored Solutions To Lightning Protection Design

Power generation facilities need lightning protection design. Each year, a multitude of electric power facilities are knocked off-line due to lightning. However, what is less known is that on a bright and sunshiny day, when there is no lightning in sight, and the power goes out and/or operations shut down, it can also be due to lightning - more accurately, the repercussions of previous lightning strikes, which occurred months earlier! Protect your facility today: https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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3 Steps Tailored Solutions To Lightning Protection Design

Power generation facilities play a pivotal role in our modern society, supplying the electricity that powers our communities, industries, and economies. However, these facilities are highly susceptible to lightning strikes, which can lead to equipment damage, outages, fire risks, and significant downtime.

LEC offers tailored solutions designed to address these specific challenges that lightning presents to power generation facilities:

Lightning Risk Assessments

Planning starts with accurate testing, assessment, and design. We use The Smart Ground Audit.

Smart Ground is a relatively new technology and service offered by LEC. The technology employs state-of-the-art grounding system design and modeling software and an advanced ground system multi-meter to deliver ground test and analysis capabilities far beyond that of the standard test meter and methodology.

Lightning Protection Design Study

A Design Study specific to DAS can include our lightning protection engineering team visiting the site. It provides a more detailed and scientific evaluation of your site’s lightning safety exposure and options for lightning protection. You will receive a formal report, a lightning strike probability analysis, a transient analysis, and a risk assessment per IEC and IEEE standards. Sometimes, this report will include site-specific drawings of recommended designs.

Maintenance and Inspection Plans 

Yearly recertification is needed to maintain the terms of the no-strike warranty issued with every Dissipation Array System (DAS).

The DAS comes with a one (1) year Limited Warranty. The Limited Warranty can be extended for an additional 12-month period upon completion of an inspection and any required repairs.

Power generation facilities need lightning protection design because:

Large surface area and high-risk facilities

Production problems if the equipment, machines, etc. have been damaged by lightning or its effects (voltage surges). May result in loss of service

Hazardous activities with serious consequences for the environment (pollution, environmental damage, etc.)

Protection of people (workers). (Health and Safety at Work Act)

This is a regulatory requirement that insurance companies may also require

Each year, a multitude of electric power facilities are knocked off-line due to lightning. However, what is less known is that on a bright and sunshiny day, when there is no lightning in sight, and the power goes out and/or operations shut down, it can also be due to lightning - more accurately, the repercussions of previous lightning strikes, which occurred months earlier!

Protect your facility today!

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Lightning Surge Protection Devices That Ensure Uninterrupted Manufacturing Processes

Indirect lightning effects refer to the secondary or indirect consequences of a lightning strike that does not make physical contact with a structure or object but still affects it. These effects can result from the electromagnetic field and electrical surges created by a nearby lightning strike. Indirect lightning effects can damage electronic equipment, communication systems, and electrical circuits.

Fortunately, there are measures you can put in place to provide different levels of lightning protection to your facility and surface electronics equipment that can provide protection in the event of a nearby hit – Lightning surge protection devices.

Some facts about surges:

Voltage surges are elevations in voltage that can occur in electrical distribution, data communications, and telephone lines, resulting in premature aging of components and/or damage to the equipment connected to the network.

Overvoltages are caused by direct lightning, indirect disconnection of inductive loads (coils, motors, etc ...), network switches, and/or defects in them.

Overvoltage surges are large spikes with a slope and are short-lived, yet the strong effects on sensitive electronic equipment are devastating.

The level of the voltage that can appear on the network is a function of the type of attack, aerial or underground, and the proximity of the MV / LV transformer.

Here at LEC, our lightning surge protection devices are built as per UL listing standards which provides the following important benefits:

Increased reliability against electrical fast transients/burst surge events such as lightning strikes

Tested to 4kV, Immunity testing, and electrostatic discharge protection to 15,000 Volts

RF Radiated Immunity

Magnetic field immunity

Protection against voltage dips & interruptions protection on the supply line

Conducted RF immunity, including lightning strikes

Protection against system failure due to incorrect field wiring, poor quality source power, and improper grounding

Lightning Surge protection devices are needed to alleviate all transient and surge concerns. LEC has UL-listed products like Facility Guard, Transient Limiters, DC surge protectors, etc. There are also low-voltage data lines and telecommunication protection products like TE500, DLP, and CLP.

Connect with our lightning eliminator specialist to find out more about our lightning surge protection devices for your facility that will safeguard your infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted operations, protecting valuable equipment, and prioritizing the safety of the workforce, even in the face of nature’s most powerful and unpredictable electrical phenomenon.

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Protect Your Facility From Lightning Damage With DAS

Lightning is random and can strike at any moment during a thunderstorm, posing a significant threat to mine sites. Mining trucks and vehicles in open areas may even attract lightning, whether they are stationary or not.  

Lightning strikes at mining sites can be catastrophic to machinery and electrical equipment and, more importantly, to personnel working in the field. Whether it's vehicles, blast areas, or power lines, lightning protection systems and safety procedures must be in place to keep your workers safe from potential lightning damage.

Types of lightning damage at mining sites:

If lightning were to strike a truck or vehicle, this might cause pyrolysis within the tires. Pyrolysis is caused when the lightning strike heats the tire rubber and releases volatile gas and organic compounds into the air section of the tire.  

The combination of the air and gases can become explosive and ignite under specific temperatures, pressure, and concentrations.  

Although lightning predominantly influences above-ground structures and equipment, underground mining operations are not exempt from risk. Lightning-induced power surges and electromagnetic fields have the capability to propagate through utility lines and communication systems, potentially affecting subterranean equipment and introducing safety hazards for personnel working in these environments.

By dissipating lightning strikes, LEC engineers can help protect your mining facilities from lightning damage.

The Dissipation Array System (DAS), generically known as a charge transfer system (CTS), is the only lightning strike prevention system. The system prevents the termination of lightning strikes within any area defined as “protected.” Since the objective of DAS is to prevent lightning strikes in a protected area, the system design accomplishes three sub-objectives. These are (1) preventing any protected site or structure from generating an upward-moving leader, (2) delaying the progress of the descending lightning leaders into the protected area, and (3) suppressing any upward-rising streamers from the protected site or structure.

Lightning Eliminators provides various services.

The necessary services are dependent on your company’s requirement against lightning damage. They can be as simple as a technical review or as extensive as a site survey. An LEC sales associate will be able to help you determine what your needs are. Connect today.

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What Can Be Done To Provide Lightning Rod Protection?

Lightning is a powerful natural force capable of discharging up to 100 million volts of electricity in a single strike. This immense energy can wreak havoc on electrical and electronic systems, leading to costly downtime and repairs.

What can be done to provide lightning rod protection?

Fortunately, there are measures you can put in place to provide different levels of lightning protection to protect your facility and electronics equipment that can provide protection even in the event of a nearby hit:

Make sure to have an earth ground plan at your facility

Make sure that instrumentation is properly grounded. 

Make sure that your equipment is surge-protected

The use of specialized lightning rod protection equipment is the most effective way to reduce the risk of damage to infrastructure or fires and explosions caused by lightning.

LEC specializes in providing comprehensive solutions designed to address the lightning challenges faced by manufacturing industries. Our team of experts brings a deep understanding of the industry and technical expertise in lightning protection and risk mitigation. We offer a range of specialized services tailored to safeguard the productivity, profitability, and safety of manufacturing operations.

Our LEC services include:

Design and engineering of turnkey lightning protection solutions

On-site surveys and on-site audits specific to lightning

Procurement, management, and installation of best-in-class equipment

Our solutions encompass surge protection devices, advanced grounding systems, lightning rods, and other industry-standard measures to safeguard critical equipment, control systems, and operational facilities.

The LEC's Advantage over the other vendors is our unique market-leading experience, knowledge, and expertise. We have an excellent library of technical articles, research papers, client success stories, and product presentations that document the success of our patented solutions. The LEC management team members are recognized experts in the field of lighting control and prevention, with a strong background in business and financial leadership. We understand the need to justify and conduct a cost-benefit analysis of any expenditure. At the same time, we also know first-hand that any reasonable risk analysis will support exploring our products and services. The LEC Advantage is the heart and soul of our products and services. LEC technical development superiority, consulting services, and lightning rod protection solutions are customized for each client.

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A Different, Innovative Approach To Lightning Protection

Lightning protection performs an important and imperative function in the energy and electric power sectors, helping companies avoid the downtime and restoration costs that come with outages. A single outage lasting 1 hour can cost upward of $1 Million not only to the company but also to its customers, depending on the service users.

Several companies have found that traditional lightning protection tends to create more issues than solutions and have opted to implement a solution based on charge transfer technology.

Whether it is a nuclear power facility such as Browns Ferry or substations, much like those operated at EPB, or a cooperative, such as Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, the usual protection, like lightning rods and overhead grounding/shield wires, do not do the job, they need assurances and have found that a customized approach, tailored to meet their unique set of circumstances, is more preferable than the standard approach.

The Lightning Protection Solution:

The Dissipation Array System (DAS) uses a different, innovative method of operation.

DAS uses “charge transfer” technology, which prevents the termination of lightning within the area of desired protection altogether. The technology is so effective that the DAS has a 99% success rate and is the only lightning protection product offering a full no-strike warranty.

Lightning Eliminators has provided critical solutions for numerous electric power facilities over the past 50-plus years. The response has resulted in statements such as this made by Dave Fatkin, Plant Engineer at the City of Tallahassee, Hopkins Generating Station,

“I want to again thank you for a job well done. I know you guys put in extra effort during the on-site data acquisition phase. If you need a reference, please feel free to pass my contact information along.” we frequently do upon request.

When utilities or power generation facilities experience adverse operational events and are subsequently knocked offline, the cost can be devastating, resulting in the ultimate consequence of death and/or substantial losses, which can have an impact on customers ranging from thousands of dollars to millions, depending on location and the customers who are impacted.

Get your lightning protection customized solution today.