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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Lightning strike incidents have long been a concern in the data center industry. To help reduce downtime and the loss of human life, coordinated earthing and lightning protection systems are a critical component for the protection of the building envelope its electronic contents along with human lif…
The process of transferring the immediate discharge of electrical energy to the ground using a low resistance earth wire is known as electrical grounding/ Electrical Earthing. Electrical earthing is accomplished by attaching the ground to the non-conductive part of the equipment or the neutral of th…
Power surges, voltage transients, load switching and lightning can seriously harm electrical and electronic equipments unless you use surge protection devices. But how do they work anyway?
The term surge protection device (SPD) is used to describe electrical devices typically installed in power…
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 …
Do you worry about how lightning damage can affect your facility or property? Is your facility located in an area where there are frequent, severe thunderstorms? Lightning strikes can occur anywhere. When lightning strikes buildings and structures, it can cause extensive damage, such as:
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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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…
When lightning strikes an object, it is looking for the path of least resistance, or more specifically, the path of least impedance.
A grounding system, which is made up of a grounding rod and wires, provides a low-impedance path to the ground.
This low-impedance path is installed to encourage…
Today’s digital economy relies on fast and reliable telecommunications networks. Such telecommunication towers are obvious and known targets for lightning strike damage, which has caused significant service downtime over the years. Therefore, protecting communications and meteorological towers shoul…
When it comes to lightning protection, many people think of Benjamin Franklin’s experiment of flying a kite in a lightning storm. Franklin did usher in the thinking that buildings could be protected from lightning. While he used a simple metal rod to safely direct the electricity, today’s lightn…
The starting point in lightning protection system design is an assessment and calculation of the actual risk from a potential lightning-related damage. Lightning Eliminators provides comprehensive lightning risk assessments and lightning protection plans that will help to ensure that a lightning str…
History of lightning rod protection
Benjamin Franklin’s passion for researching electricity led him to pay attention to a phenomenon that had gone unnoticed by many others before him. One day, he was flying a kite when it was struck by lightning that burned it up, which led the ingenious research…
Lightning usually hits the sharpest and tallest object in an area because ground charges emitted from objects with high elevations reach the opposite charged streamers of the cloud earlier than the charges from any shorter object. On the other hand, lightning current aims to reach ground by followin…
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…
Every flash of lightning is potentially carrying millions of volts of electricity. Contrary to popular opinion, lightning can strike anywhere repeatedly, it doesn’t always strike tall buildings and even can strike up to 80 kilometres away from the point of impact. LEC can protect your business from …
In the United States, lightning is one of the most dangerous and frequent weather hazards. It’s fascinating to watch, but lightning can result in severe injuries and even death to people and massive damage to critical assets.
Thus it’s important that your facility, personnel, equipment and mach…
Across industries, the power of lightning strikes to injure personnel, destroy assets, and disrupt processes through fire, explosion, or electrical damage is clear. Thus a proper lightning protection design is very important to ensure increased protection of a building against lightning and its effe…
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.
Lightning …
Every minute, more than 2,000 lightning flashes occur over the earth's surface. Usually, this lightning discharges harmlessly in the atmosphere, but when this lightning strikes the ground, it can cause considerable property damage, injury, and even loss of life.
You can't stop lightning, but you …