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Will a Grounding Rod To Protect Your Electrical Equipment?

Grounding rods are critical in electrical grounding systems. They provide a safe pathway for excess electricity to dissipate into the earth, protecting people and electrical equipment from potential harm caused by lightning strikes or power surges.

A grounding rod is usually located very close to…

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Do Grounding Rod Protect Against Lightning?

Grounding Rods provide an easy path for electricity to flow to earth should any problem occur like a lightning strike, power surge, short circuit, etc.  If properly installed,  grounding rods can prevent fire, shock, danger to human lives, and damage to electrical and electronic equipment.

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Grounding Rods - Proper way to ground lightning strike currents

Can we stop Lightning Surge? – No.

But by implementing proper grounding system, we can avoid any damage to the electrical and electronic systems.

Grounding is an electrical technique that connects a part of a facility or structure to the earth by means of a conductive material. Grounding Rod…

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Number 1 Reason Why You Need A Grounding Rod

Nowadays there is no one in this world who is not using electrical equipment. We all have and use electrical and electronic equipment in one way or the other. But these expensive devices often fail due to lack of earthing and lightning protection.

Grounding system, Lightning Arrestor, and SPD (S…

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Compelling Grounding Rod Facts

A functioning grounding system is an integral part of the electrical installations in all buildings. It forms an important basis for ensuring safety and functionality in buildings from direct and indirect lightning strikes.

To ensure proper protection and safe operation, these installations must …

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Chem Grounding Rod – The Earth Electrode Your Facility Requires!

The chance that your facility will be hit by lightning varies on a number of factors such as location, structure height, temperature, and humidity.

Lightning is nature’s attempt to equalize the voltage between storm clouds and the earth. In order for lightning to strike, it must connect to upward…

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Advantages Of A Chemical Grounding Rod

An efficient grounding system is critical to personnel safety and uninterrupted operations but conventional ground rods are typically insufficient for industrial uses where target resistance can be less than 1 ohm.

The Chem-Rod solves problems found with conventional ground rods by requiring le…

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Grounding Rod Lightning Protection – Tailored Solution by LEC

A grounding rod acts as the only electrical path to dissipate static discharge voltage, occurring due to switch load or natural circumstances, such as lightning, into the Earth. And when this path starts to break down, the static discharge has nowhere to go, putting the whole facility at risk.

A …

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Copper Bonded Grounding Rod For the Wind Energy Industry

Wind turbines provide us with renewable energy that relies on nature, rather than fossil fuels, to reap the benefits. Yet, due to the height of the structures and location, wind turbines can attract lightning that result in fires, downtime and damaged electronics.

In order to fully gain the rewar…

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All You Need to Know About Lightning Protection

Lightning is an age-old problem with protection solutions dating back to 1755 when Dr. Benjamin Franklin experimented with lightning protection and discovered that a sharp point dissipates charge. This discovery led to the grounding rod which is still in use today.

Established in 1981, LEC is ded…

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Frequently Asked Questions on Lightning Protection Systems

What is a lightning protection system?

“There is no product or scientific method capable of modifying a natural phenomenon. Our lightning protection systems simply prevent a lightning to strike within the protected area.”

Our lightning protection systems are designed to protect a facil…

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All You Need To Know About Lightning And Lightning Rod

  • Today every building is equipped with many sensitive electronic system thus they need to be protected from any unforeseen damage such as a lightning strike. This is the reason more people are installing lightning rod t…

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All You Need To Know About Lightning And Lightning Rod

Today, every building is equipped with many sensitive electronic system thus they need to be protected from any unforeseen damage such as a lightning strike. This is the reason more people are installing lightning rod than ever before. And as every structure is vulnerable to lightning damage, a ligh…

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Strike It Right With The Best Lightning Rod

Lightning rod carries the harmful electrically charged cloud away from any facility or structure, safely to the ground. It has the ability to handle enormous electrical current associated with a lightning strike.

Lightning Protection Design

This tried and tested method has been protecting buildings and its occupants sin…

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Wide Range of Best Quality Lightning Protection Products

Lightning is an unpredictable phenomenon. Each year thousands of properties are destructed and damaged globally by lightning strikes. Lightning damage in the US alone cost over 5 billion-dollars annually. A properly installed lightning system can safeguard and prevent damage up to 98%. Over the year…

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