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5 Reasons To Invest In Lightning Protection System For Your Facility

Lightning is a beautiful thing; nature’s own light show that flickers across the sky. However, lightning can also cause damage and disruption to both internal and external structures. It’s easy to overlook the damage and disruption that lightning can cause until it’s too late. The best way to reduce…

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DAS Lightning Protection System For Every Power Generating Facility

A Lightning Protection System (LPS), when used as part of a total lightning and surge protection assembly, plays a vital role in protecting equipment, structures, and even buildings against direct lightning strikes.

Many electric power facilities are knocked off-line each year due to lightnin…

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The One-Stop Shop Solution For Lightning Protection

As businesses and industries are demanding more sophisticated electrical systems and infrastructure, a lightning protection system has become very imperative. Imagine the destruction a lightning strike can cause in an unprotected facility! The damage will be beyond repair and unrecoverable losses. E…

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Lightning Protection System For Photovoltaic Power Plants

Solar plants have quickly become one of the fastest-growing sources of renewable energy in many parts of the world because of the sharp drop in panel costs and the increase in the efficiency of these systems. These PV plants are becoming integral to many electrical networks where they provide indepe…

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Why and When to Install A Lightning Protection System

Strikes, strokes, flashes and bolts, thunder or lightning, all refer to the same occurrence, and are often used interchangeably.

When electrical charges build-up inside a cloud such that release is imminent, a lightning bolt is created. The bolt is a spark which carries the charges stored in the …

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Lightning Protection System – The Smart Risk Reduction Choice For Every Industry

Lightning is a natural hazard that causes serious economic losses, personal injuries and deaths. Many of these damages occur due to lack of awareness or due to ignorance about lightning protection system and precautions to be taken during lightning activity.

 

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A Fully Integrated Lightning Protection Solution Provider

The simplest way to think of a lightning strike would be as a short circuit between the cloud and the earth. The earth and an active thundercloud have either a positive or negative polarity with respect to each other, just like battery connections that can arc, if they are not separated by a long en…

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What can be Done to Provide Industrial Lightning Protection?

If you operate in a region where seasonal lightning strikes are common you’ll know how critical it is that your sensitive electrical equipment features lightning protection!

Lightning is produced in thunderstorms when liquid and ice particles above the freezing level collide, and build up large…

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Lightning protection for data centers

There is an infinite amount of information housed, shared, and stored throughout facilities globally. It’s transferred through and to data centers around the planet. When people send data and computing services into the cloud, they want confidence that it is available when needed. 

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Lightning Protection – The Smart Risk-Reduction Choice

Lightning is a bright flash of electricity produced by a thunderstorm. It's an electrical current.

As clouds form in the sky, the water droplets on top of the clouds turn into ice. These small bits of ice collide with each other, building up an electrical charge. Eventually, the whole cloud fills…

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The Essentials Of Lightning Protection System

In recent years, changes in the global environment, such as global warming, extreme weather conditions, heat islands, and other phenomenon has led to increased heavy rain and lightning. On the other hand, advanced precision electronic equipment have become the need of the hour for every facility. Th…

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Benefits Of Lightning Rod Protection On Structures

The importance of lightning rod protection is overlooked despite the fact that it’s a very serious thing to consider. It’s critical that any outdoor structure, whether temporary or permanent to have lightning rod protection.

Lightning is a natural occurrence that cannot be avoided, which …

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Protect Your Facility With Lightning Surge Protection Devices

Today’s industrial setups are heavily reliant on the continuous and efficient running of electrical and electronic systems. Overvoltage surges are a major cause of failure of this equipment.

Surge protection Devices

An electrical transient or surge is a short duration, high-energy impulse that is imparted on the no…

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Petrochemical Industry Safety Check for Lightning Protection

Petrochemical facilities, refineries, storage facilities, tank terminals and batteries in the petrochemical and hydrocarbon industry are important arteries of individual countries and the entire world. Today, the rigs are drilling deeper, platforms are stationed farther out into international waters…

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The First Lightning Safety Step – Lightning Audit

Spring and summer are peak season for one of nation’s deadliest weather phenomena – lightning. But don’t be fooled, lightning can strike any time of the year and even during a snowstorm. LEC have been providing lightning protection for over 45 years.  You need to take lightning safety measures in ad…

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The Best Lightning Rod Protection For Every Industry

Millions of dollars are spent each year as a result of lightning damage to businesses. Every industry is vulnerable to lightning damage, fires, fried equipment, injury, downtime and other forms of disruption and loss.

We understand the damage that unpredictable weather conditions like a lightning…

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Lightning Protection – A Necessity For Every Industry

It’s a given, lightning can strike industrial buildings.

As a leading specialist in lightning protection, LEC offers comprehensive, customized solutions to industrial, commercial and government facilities.

Our lighting protection system does not attract a lightning strike. Rather, it prevents …

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Are You Aware of the Lightning Safety Tips because Lightning Will Strike

Some people love a great thunderstorm whereas others are petrified by its first flash. Love them or hate them, a thunderstorm producing lightning is dangerous. In less than a microsecond, a lightning discharge can generate millions of amps of electricity. And it can hit anywhere; directly beneath th…

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Working Outdoors? Consider These Lightning Safety Tips

Over the years, statistics have proven that a lightning strike is more deadly than any other storm-induced calamity like tornados, floods, and hurricanes. When a storm is brewing, we need to stay informed as what to do in case of lightning and thunder while keeping a close monitor of the progress of…

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Is This Technology Better Than Any Lightning Safety Tip?

We all know that lightning is dangerous, so it only makes sense to understand the different ways of protecting oneself.

When you are outside:

  • Stay away from concrete walls and floors. The metal wires and bars inside them are good conductor of electricity.
  • Trees are not safe as well. The moistur…

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