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. Thus, preventing equipment damage and breakdowns caused by direct lightning strikes has become a major issue.
With a proper lightning protection system installed, you can rest assured that your system, investments, and personnel will be protected. That is why we advocate a total solution approach to lightning protection – it ensures complete protection of your employees, the fabric of your building and the electronic systems therein.
Why is it so important?
It is because lightning strike can cause a fire, explosion, chemical release or mechanical disruptions within or around your facility.
At LEC, we are fully aware that all these risks need to be considered and protected against when developing a lightning protection system. With over 4 decades of experience, our support and expertise have assisted thousands of businesses, both large and small, to achieve effective protection against lightning.
Our LPS are engineered with advanced technology and consist of the same four key components – air terminals, conductor/bonding, grounding, and transient/surge protection.
Air terminals – by LEC is based on point discharge principle or charge transfer. It provides thousands of points with specific point separation which simultaneously produce ions over a large area, thus preventing the formation of a streamer, which is a precursor of a lightning strike. Our patented Dissipation Array system prevents strikes by continually lowering the voltage differential between the ground and the charged cloud to below lightning potentials, even in the midst of a worst-case storm.
However, we also consider secondary lightning strikes and transient currents while designing a lightning protection system. Thus,
Conductors/bondings – are required to create a low impedance grounding system by using chemically charged electrodes to neutralize any stray voltage that may have entered the facility.
Transient/surge protection – is required to protect against transients traveling through data lines and another conductive path.
Because DAS prevents rather that redirecting lightning strikes, it is a solid solution to lightning strike problems. Throughout this time, DAS has maintained a success record of over 99%.