Can You Prevent Lightning Damage to your Facilities

1. Can You Prevent Lightning Damage to your Facilities?

2. A lightning strike’s temperature is several times greater than the surface of the sun. Such a severe natural electrical force often leads to extensive thermal and physical damage whether it’s a direct strike or one occurring close-by. Thunderstorms occur virtually everywhere and that puts just about any type of structure at risk to lightning damage.

3. Lightning can enter a structure in numerous ways: • Through a direct strike that can ignite fires or explode roofing, brick, wood, mortar and concrete • Via antennas, vent fans, satellite dishes, chimney, dormer or metal roofing accessory • Via telecommunication and utility lines • Via surge or side flashes delivered through a nearby tree or pole • Through wiring electronics, cable lines and data systems • Through irrigation systems, invisible fences, security systems and electric gates • Through metallic lines, piping or gas piping

4. Some workers are at greater risk than others. People who work outdoors in open spaces, on or near tall objects, with explosive flammable materials or with conductive materials such as metal have a greater exposure to lightning damage. Lightning damage usually results from a direct strike on power lines, which produces a large voltage. When this happens, the electrical system accepts the overwhelmingly excessive current. This creates a tremendous spike in voltage, which in turn causes a significant power surge.

5. How can you prevent lightning damage? The implementation of prevention and protection measures against lightning, such as a lightning protection system has continuously reduced the amount of damage to facilities. Since a single lightning strike is capable of introducing a chain reaction of destruction, the lightning protection system (LPS) design and installation needs to follow the guidelines of NFPA 780 to effectively address all aspects of this complex electrical hazard. Technologies available today allow any facility, structure, or operation to be protected from loss in the event of a lightning strike. LEC’s Dissipation Array System helped Turner Broadcasting reduce electronic system maintenance by over 85%.

6. Our 3 practical steps improve protection against lightning damage: • Comprehensive risk assessment • Protection-level based design • Comprehensive design • Preventing lightning damage ahead of time gives you the best chance of reducing unnecessary costs down the road. Solutions are available with us to provide lightning protection for buildings and facilities. • If you are at the point of considering a lightning protection system to prevent lightning damage, why not email us so we can discuss the next steps.

7. Contact Us…. • Address: 6687 Arapahoe Rd. Boulder, CO 80303, USA • Phone: 303-447-2828 • Email: info@lecglobal.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lightningeliminators/ • Twitter: https://twitter.com/lightningprotec • Website: https://www.lightningprotection.com/ • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC38fIybZ7ui4qMEU-1VM0WQ