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How Does DAS Protect the Oil And Gas Industry From Lightning Damage?

Lightning is a discharge of electricity. A single stroke of lightning can heat the air around it to 30,000°C (54,000°F)! This extreme heating causes the air to expand explosively fast. The expansion creates a shock wave that turns into a booming sound wave, known as thunder.

Lightning strikes c…

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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 el…

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Your Partner In Choosing The Best Lightning Rod Protection – Lightning Eliminators

Lightning is a giant spark of electricity that originates in clouds or air. The dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes happen when the negative electricity originating in the atmosphere connects with the positive charge of an object below. When this atmospheric electrical charge is less than a …

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Everything You Need To Know About Lightning Protection Design Process

The purpose of lightning protection design is to safeguard valuable equipment and assets from the hazards arising from exposure to lightning. Benjamin Franklin invented the earliest lightning safety instrument, the lightning rod, in 1752. It still represents a viable solution to lightning strike…

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Lightning Rod Protection – To Avoid The Formation And Discharge Of Lightning In The Protection Zone

Lightning rods generally do not avoid direct lightning strikes but instead “arrest” them. They attract lightning strikes and transfer the energy discharges to the ground rather than passing it to the building. Conventional lightning rod protection technically can re-route the direct lightning st…

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One Solution To All Traditional Lightning Protection Design System Problems

“Struck by lightning” is a metaphor for sudden, unpredictable disaster. A large thunderstorm can produce over 100 lightning flashes a minute, and even a modest storm cloud can generate the energy of a small nuclear power plant (a few hundred megawatts). Not all lightning strikes the ground, but that…

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The Lightning Rod Protection You Require For Your Sensitive Electronics

In order to protect a structure against lightning, a protection system must be designed in accordance with lightning rod protection international and national standards.

Lightning protection is a system designed to mitigate the potential damage caused by lightning strikes on buildings. In a light…

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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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How To Protect Your Facility From Lightning Damage?

Wildfires in open fields and forests across the USA capture the news for their widespread devastation, but fires in the facility may be your biggest concern. Over the years 18% of lightning fires occurred in facilities, but these accounted for 70% of the direct property damage, which equated to $407…

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What Can The Best Lightning Protection Products Do For Your Facility?

Did you know lightning causes more than $5 billion in property damages each year? Lightning is a dangerous natural process and is one of the leading causes of weather-related deaths worldwide. Many complications can arise from a lightning strike:

  • Safety risk to personnel
  • Damage to equipment

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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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Protecting Your Commercial Solar Panels With Lightning Protection Design System

Lightning is very destructive and is one of the top natural elements that cause damage to solar panels. Let us see how failures of renewable energy solar power systems can be avoided during a lightning event by installing a professionally designed code-compliant lightning protection design system.

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Grounding Rod – An Integrated System for Lightning, Power, and Telecom

The Earth grounding system is a vital component of electrical and lightning protection systems. It provides a conductive path for electrical charges to safely move to the ground and prevents equipment damage and breakdowns caused by direct lightning strikes. In this article, we will explore the impo…

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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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How To Determining The Potential For Lightning Damage

Lightning bolts & electronics do not play well together!

Natural disasters can cause major accidents in facilities and they can lead to the release of hazardous materials which in turn can result in fires, explosions or toxic dispersion. Lightning strikes are the most frequent cause of major acci…

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Redirect Lightning and Eliminate the Risk of Lightning Damage

Manufacturing plants must maintain high performance levels, effectively manage the flow of materials through the organization, and distribute products on time in order to generate the highest level of productivity and bottom line possible. At times manufacturing plants run into issues that set produ…

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5 Technologically Advanced Lightning Protection Products By LEC

LEC holds the patent for the Dissipation Array System (DAS), the Retractable Grounding Assembly (RGA) as well as the Chem-Rod and many other Lightning Protection Products.

Our Lightning protection products support two primary lightning protection standards:

NFPA 780 – The Standard for…

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Protect Your Valuable Equipment; Install Lightning Surge Protection Devices

Lightning surge protection devices are an indispensable part of lightning protection for electronic equipment. Its function is to limit the instantaneous overvoltage of the power line and signal transmission line to the voltage range that the equipment or system can withstand, or to discharge powerf…

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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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Prevent Lightning Damage

Thunder is that sound in the sky that is all too familiar. Do you know how to protect yourself from that pesky lightning? More than 400 people are struck by lightning each year. The good news is that most occurrences can be avoided with a few simple precautions.

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