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We Are Your Reliable Lightning Protection System And Solution Partner

A direct lightning strike can be a tremendous loss, costing millions of dollars. Fortunately, there are ways to help safeguard your property, personnel and yourself from lightning damage. Lightning Eliminators & Consultants Inc., are your lightning protection systems and solution partner. If you are concerned about lightning striking your high-value or critical assets, then you’re in the right place. For more details contact us - https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Unparalleled Lightning Rod Protection System

The Advanced Lightning rod Protection System from LEC is a solution that effectively protects critical facilities, locations and assets from direct lightning strikes and the resulting damage and downtime. Today every building is equipped with many sensitive electronic systems thus they need to be protected from any unforeseen damage such as a lightning strikes. This is the reason more people are considering lightning rod protection than ever before. Talk to our LEC team today - https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Redirect Lightning and Eliminate the Risk of Lightning Damage

Lightning damage can happen anytime – day or night. Lightning Eliminators & Consultants, Inc. (LEC) has extensive experience in supplying successful lightning protection and prevention systems to many manufacturing plants worldwide. Our manufactured and patented products prevent rather than redirect lightning thus eliminating the risk of a lightning damage. Contact us for more information on how to prevent your manufacturing facility from lightning damage: https://www.lightningprotection.com/damage-caused-by-lightning-strikes/

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Lightning Protection Design System – A Solution Based On Charge Transfer Technology

LEC’s Lightning protection design system performs an important and imperative function in the energy and electric power sectors helping companies avoid the downtime and restoration costs that come with outages. Lightning Eliminators has provided critical solutions for numerous electric power facilities over the past 50 plus years. If you are interested in additional information please contact us - https://www.lightningprotection.com/

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Grounding Rod That’s Least Resistant To Changing Temperatures

The purpose of a grounding rod is to have a designed electrical path to dissipate a static discharge voltage to the earth. These grounding rods or Chem Rods are efficient in terms that one rod can easily replace 10 conventional rods. They are least resistant to changing temperatures and require very low maintenance along with being economical and reliable. Contact an LEC expert today - https://www.lightningprotection.com/grounding-earthing/

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Grounding Rod That’s Least Resistant To Changing Temperatures

Grounding rods and their fittings are used to provide the interface to ground in all soil conditions in order to achieve satisfactory earthing systems in overhead and underground electricity distribution and transmission networks – providing high fault current capacity on low, medium and high voltage substations, towers and power distribution applications.

When current seeks and finds its own path(s) back to its voltage source, usually it will pass through equipment. If the voltage passing through that equipment is higher than its operating threshold, the equipment will fail and an outage of some type will take place.

Among the various situations that may occur on your electrical system, the most common are high voltage surges, and damage or loss of one of the service conductors. 

High voltage surges are often caused by lightning strikes on or near power lines. In addition, voltage spikes can occur when large appliances or heavy machinery at nearby locations are switched on or off.  Proper grounding provides stability to the electrical system and reduces the impact of these surges.

Should a tree branch fall, or a car hit a pole, the service wire from the utility system may be disrupted. Proper grounding is important to eliminate or minimize the possible damage. With insufficient grounding, varying voltages within the facility may cause damage to motorized appliances due to under voltage or damage to electronics as a result of overvoltage.

The purpose of a grounding rod is to have a designed electrical path to dissipate a static discharge voltage (which can be lightning or other forms of static electricity) to the earth. The electrical earth grounding rod is usually considered at zero volts. From this point all other voltage measurements can be taken with earth referenced to zero volts.

The Chem-Rod solves problems found with conventional grounding rods by requiring less real estate and fewer electrodes to meet specified resistance. The Chem-Rod uses advanced engineering to achieve a consistent, low-impedance electrical connection with the earth, even in unfavourable and varying ground conditions, such as permafrost.

These grounding rods or Chem Rods are efficient in terms that one rod can easily replace 10 conventional rods. They are least resistant to changing temperatures and require very low maintenance along with being economical and reliable.

Contact an LEC expert today!

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We Are Your Reliable Lightning Protection System And Solution Partner

A lightning strike is a massive electric spark that’s either traveling between the clouds or from a cloud down to earth. Since it’s an uncontrollable natural phenomenon, scientists can only give a best estimate that lightning is anywhere from 30 to 50 million volts.

With that kind of voltage – regardless of where it really falls within that range – protection from lightning is a no brainer. To put things in perspective, in commercial high voltage applications, you may see voltages greater than 100 kV (kilovolts). Still, nowhere near a million volts. That’s a wild amount.

Fortunately, protection against lightning is possible through lightning protection systems.

Traditional LPS

Intercepting the discharge | Safely conducting the lightning currents while minimizing the effects | Dissipating the currents into the earth.

A strike termination device (or lightning rod), which is the first point of contact with lightning will deflect the lightning stroke into the protective system itself, where it is routed to the ground, away from the building and its components – eliminating the potential for damage.

Technologically advanced LPS

Given the random and destructive nature of lightning strikes, how can businesses protect their personnel, facilities, equipment, and processes – including those of a sensitive electronic nature such as data centers and control systems? The answer lies not in channelling lightning, but in preventing the charge from accumulating in the first place.

One technology, the Dissipation Array System (DAS); a type of lightning protection systems has proven to be the preventative solution for lightning protection.

The Protective effect of the Dissipation Array System is intended to ensure that the electric field of a thunderstorm and the field of the downward lightning leader would not contribute to the development of processes that lead to a lightning strike into the protected area.

This lightning protection system serves to isolate the area of protection from a lightning strike and provides complete protection with the reliability of 99%.

A direct lightning strike can be a tremendous loss, costing millions of dollars. Fortunately, there are ways to help safeguard your property, personnel and yourself from lightning damage. 

Lightning Eliminators & Consultants Inc., are your lightning protection systems and solution partner. If you are concerned about lightning striking your high-value or critical assets, then you’re in the right place.

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Lightning Protection Design System – A Solution Based On Charge Transfer Technology

Each year a multitude of electric power facilities are knocked off-line due to lightning. Not only are there primary effects of a lightning strike (like fire) but secondary effects, such as transient surges and overvoltage, as well.

Each time a bolt hits, the electrical current is carried through to ground, the ground potential rise (GPR) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) can be coupled or transferred through the wires and into the equipment and sensitive electronics of the facility. If not immediately destroyed, every time this happens, degradation occurs and the life of that item is shortened.

So why would you want to collect a strike into the ground by using a Franklin Rod?

Many companies have found that traditional lightning protection design systems tend to create more issues than solutions and have opted to implement a solution based on charge transfer technology.

DAS uses “charge transfer” technology, which prevents the termination of lightning within the area of desired protection altogether. The technology is so effective, the DAS has over a 99% success rate and is the only lightning protection product to offer a full no-strike warranty.

LEC’s Lightning protection design system performs an important and imperative function in the energy and electric power sectors helping companies avoid the downtime and restoration costs that come with outages. We recommend not only including lightning protection design systems but to implement a full and extensive lightning risk mitigation plan. This begins with risk assessment, testing, and a customized design unique to the facility, followed by proper installation, and ongoing maintenance and inspection. This approach can save energy providers and their customers millions of dollars in the long run.

Lightning Eliminators has provided critical solutions for numerous electric power facilities over the past 50 plus years, such as:

Tennessee Valley Authority - Browns Ferry Nuclear

International Paper- Power Complex

Bruce Power – Bruce B. Nuclear Facility

City of Tallahassee – Hopkins Generating Station

Exelon - Hillabee Power Plant

It’s important for electric power companies to have a lightning protection design system, and to create a thorough and comprehensive solution which combines lightning protection, with grounding engineering, as well as appropriate surge solutions.

If you are interested in additional information please contact us.

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Unparalleled Lightning Rod Protection System

The Advanced Lightning rod Protection System from LEC is a solution that effectively protects critical facilities, locations and assets from direct lightning strikes and the resulting damage and downtime.

The DAS effectively lowers the likelihood of a direct lightning strike within a given area to virtually zero. It does this by building up a space charge shield over its zone of protection. The result is that the zone of protection no longer presents itself as a path of least resistance to lightning. If a thundercloud overhead discharges lightning, it will strike outside this zone instead.

Unparalleled Lightning Rod Protection System

They incorporate electrodes that break down into corona before streamers can form; these terminals lowers accumulated static charges, consequently mitigating or delaying upward streamer generation.  It combine the advantages of two systems: the preferred path to ground of a conventional system and state-of-the-art Dissipation Array System which increases the effective protection area 800 times more than that of a conventional system.

Benefits

Offers the highest level of lightning protection in the industry, backed by many system years of field installation experience

Lightning strike dissipation, designed to mitigate both direct lightning strike and secondary effects

Enhanced structural design catering to increased severity in weather conditions

Customized to fit client’s level of protection requirement

Unique lightning rod protection design for optimum ionization

Ensures business and operational continuity in storm conditions

Maintains integrity of electronic equipment and manufactured products

Because it prevents rather than redirects lightning, DAS is possibly the best long-term solution to lightning strike problems. Our company, Lightning Eliminators and Consultants, Inc. (LEC), based in Boulder, Colorado, has long been at the forefront of DAS development. In the five decades since we introduced DAS into the U.S. marketplace, it has been the only lightning protection system proven to prevent lightning strikes to any protected facility.

Today every building is equipped with many sensitive electronic systems thus they need to be protected from any unforeseen damage such as a lightning strikes. This is the reason more people are considering lightning rod protection than ever before.

Talk to our LEC team today.

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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 production back. One unpredictable factor is weather, specifically lightning.

Lightning is an on-going global concern for every industry, not only for the safety of their employees but also for the protection of company’s assets. Lightning can strike anywhere and can instantly bring down the sensitive electronic system of a business. Lightning damage can happen anytime – day or night.

Lightning damage occurs when current flows due to the difference in potential at two different locations.  It has the power to damage your electrical systems.

For many companies, the effects of even one direct strike are too much to bear and can result in the loss of tens of millions of dollars. The potential damage and losses lead many businesses to assess and manage their risks with comprehensive lightning, surge and grounding protection services and products.

Lightning Eliminators & Consultants, Inc. (LEC) has extensive experience in supplying successful lightning protection and prevention systems to many manufacturing plants worldwide. They include manufacturing plants for Georgia Pacific, International Paper, and Keystone Foods.

The most important thing for any business is to halt sensitive production equipment at the right moment, evacuate personnel from sensitive areas and, if required, disconnect the main supply grid from the plant.

Most of this lightning damage can be avoided with lightning protection systems and surge protectors. Our product lines include Lightning Prevention Products like our Dissipation Array Systems (DAS), Spine Ball Ionizers (SBI), Spine Ball Terminals (SBT), and Streamer Delaying Air Terminals (SDAT), Grounding and Surge solutions.

Our manufactured and patented products prevent rather than redirect lightning thus eliminating the risk of a lightning damage.

The protection of manufacturing units from lightning is a necessary endeavour. The equipment used for lightning protection at a typical facility is varied and available in different configurations depending upon the need at the site. 

Contact us for more information on how to prevent your manufacturing facility from lightning damage.