Lightning Protection is avoided by most people until after a tragedy. We can only hope more people think about lightning protection in the calm before the storm.
Lightning protection has come a long way – technologically, practically and geographically. By assuming and actively engaging in indust…
Thunderstorms can be quite fascinating and likely to be watched. The rapid flashes and the growling sound is a thrilling experience for many. However, there is no bigger menace to our everyday life than lightning. It has proved to be one of the most disastrous and fatal occurrences.
Lightning is …
Lightning seems like the ultimate “act of God”. Unpredictable, capricious – it can come as a literal bolt out of the blue.
Thus basic lightning safety tips can and do save lives. Following are a few very simple precautions:
Indoors:
Lightning rods must undergo periodic inspections and maintenance, as indicated by national and international regulations. These periodic inspections allow the detection of deviation from reference standards or anomalies in the installations caused by environmental conditions such as corrosions, inco…
Summer brings thunderstorms, and with them the chance of lightning strikes.
So what do you do when you hear the thunder?
Continue with your work till the thunder and lightning get closer? Sit on a bench under a tree to see what happens? Or get in your car and drive to safety?
The correct answer…
The cost of replacing equipment and electronics or dealing with fire after a sudden severe lightning strike is enough inspiration to acquire a lightning protection system.
Lightning can strike a structure in many ways:
Across industries, powerful lightning strikes can injure personnel, destroy assets, and disrupt processes through fire, explosion and electrical damages are clear. Even if the facility is not directly struck by lightning, secondary effects such as transient voltage can fry sensitive circuitry in the…
Direct lightning strikes and their secondary effects are some of the most harmful natural occurrences because they can occur anywhere and hit any project. For many industrial plants, the effects of even one direct strike are too much to bear and can result in the loss of tens of millions of dollars.…
Lightning is caused by the build-up of static electricity within a thundercloud. Negative charge accumulates at the bottom of the cloud and induces a positive charge on the surface of the earth. When the potential between the cloud and ground reaches about a billion volts, a downward leader begins t…
Lightning is an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that can discharge up to 200,000 amps in a fraction of seconds. In fact, cloud to ground strikes is the most dangerous form of lightning for property and human life. A direct lightning strike can have devastating effects on people, assets and our natu…
Lightning Protection is easy to forget. Most people only think about it after a tragedy. We can only hope more people think about lightning protection in the calm before the storm.
Lightning protection has come a long way – technologically, practically and geographically. By assuming and actively e…
Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc., lightning protection system is a comprehensive coordinated approach to complete industrial protection caused by lightning and transient currents.
Let us provide you answers to your commonly asked questions.
Is lightning protection required?
Yes, it’s…
Industrial lightning protection for businesses is vital to their success.
A direct lightning strike can damage structures, critical equipment and also the occupants as it can induce fast transient overvoltages into the power system. At Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc. we offer superior lig…
A Lightning protection system is designed to protect a structure from damage due to a lightning strike. Lightning Eliminators and Consultant Inc, has been installing the best protection systems for every industry for over 40 years.
For over two centuries, lightning rod served as the primary means…
Every industrial plant is struck by lightning at least once in several years. Thus Lightning rods are just as important as they have ever been and the lightning protection system is in common use today.
There are different types of solutions available today to protect a facility from lightning bu…
Lightning protection products have become a necessity.
Lightning is a natural phenomenon that simply cannot be avoided, thus we need to protect ourselves against it. Lightning causes major problems for companies such as damaging buildings, plants, and critical equipment. This phenomenon alone ac…
A lightning protection system commonly known as LPS is designed to protect non conducting structures such as buildings and its contents from lightning damage. This system provides mean by which a lightning discharge may enter or leave earth without damaging or even passing through conducting or non-…
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All You Need To Know About Lightning And Lightning Rod
Mother Nature’s electrical power – lightning is the visible discharge of static electricity within a cloud, between clouds or between earth and a cloud. Throughout human history, lightning has been a destructive force, responsible for more deaths than tornados and hurricanes. Around 41% of lightning…
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