Electrical Lightning Protection

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Electrical lightning protection.

The lightning protection institute is a nationwide not for profit organization founded in 1955 to promote lightning protection education awareness and safety. The protectors consist of multiple metal oxide visitors with internal thermal and overcurrent protection. Surgepro ac surge protectors are designed for service surgepro ac surge protectors are designed for service entrance or subpanel locations. Lightning protection lightning protection testing is carried out every 11 months so that over a 12 year period your system has been tested in every month.

Lightning protection can help you limit your risk of lightning damage and help in protecting your home from lightning surge. A lightning protection system intercepts or diverts lightning and provides a certain path for conducting the surges safely to the ground by adequate down conductors. Lightning protection plays a key role in the design and operation of electric power systems. The lightning protection industry began in the united states when benjamin franklin postulated that lightning was electricity and a metal rod could be used to carry the lightning away from a building.

Lightning accounts for more than 1 billion annually in structural damage to buildings in the united states alone according to underwriters laboratories inc. Each provides small easy to install surge protection for the entire home or office. Lightning could strike your home causing extensive damage. The dangers lightning and electrical surges present are very real.

So take time to review some steps you can take to help protect yourself and your property. Lightning protection systems protect buildings staff customers and electrical equipment from lightning strikes. 1 ordinary structures 2 miscellaneous structures and special occupancies 3 heavy duty stacks 4 structures containing flammable vapors flammable gases or liquids that can give off flammable vapors br 5 structures housing explosive materials br 6 wind. In areas with frequent storms lightning is the most common cause of outages and damage.

Reliable protection of industrial and commercial operations and personnel demands a systematic and comprehensive approach to minimizing threats caused by strikes and.