You need to think about preventing the strike rather than collecting it.
Did you know that a comprehensive lightning protection design system will include all three types of protection: Protection against direct lightning strikes, grounding, and surge protection solutions?
Lightning is the phenomenon that accompanies the discharge of atmospheric charges from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth. As lightning seeks the path of the least resistance, it naturally tends to follow the shortest way between cloud and earth, such as buildings or towering projections. Positive electrical charges gather in the clouds, and negative charges gather in the ground. When the attraction between these two charges is strong enough, they come together in the form of lightning.
Lightning strikes can cause various types of damage. Large peak voltages damage transmission lines and voltage-sensitive devices. Lightning’s electrical currents often result in an energy transfer and heat. The heat energy can literally melt electrically conductive components, including transmitting antennas.
Solution
Lightning Dissipation Terminals utilize the point discharge principle to mitigate direct lightning strikes. Our patented DAS helps prevent direct lightning strikes by dissipating static electrical charge into the atmosphere through ionization. This process reduces overall facility charge concentrations, lowering probabilities for the formation of streamers. This prevents the formation of lightning paths from the cloud to other structures and points in the protected area.
Our lightning protection design products can be customized for data centres, information technology, broadcasts, communication towers, bridges, petrochemical storage facilities, and other high-risk structures.
The benefits of lightning protection design products by LEC over traditional lightning protection:
- Patented technology
- High-grade stainless steel construction
- Lightweight and easy to install
- Corrosion resistant
- Low wind loading
- Large selection of mounting hardware
- Manufactured and installed as per national and international standards
LEC can assist you in protecting against lightning. We offer a range of qualified and code-compliant lightning protection design systems. Our applications are backed up by our five decades of research, real-world operational experience, innovative product development, and consulting services.
Our lightning protection design solutions are customized for each client. Connect with us to know more.