Lightning Protection Products

Electricity has provided countless benefits to people, but it still remains one of the most deadly elements readily available in our daily lives, thus it’s important to ground electrical currents to:

- Protect against electrical overboard

- Help electrical currents to safely and efficiently travel throughout your electrical system.

- Stabilize voltage levels

- Provide an earth conductor, thus giving excess electricity a place to go

- Minimize th...

Grounding plays a very important role in the protection of buildings and equipment against direct lightning strikes as well as surges from indirect strikes. In the case of direct strikes, currents of large magnitudes are conducted by the lightning protection system thus a low impedance path from the lightning protection conductor to the ground is essential to keep the inevitable voltage-rise within safe limits.

Lightning wants to get to ground. It will follow the path(s) of least impedance to do so.

All electricity, including lightning, performs in terms of flow, in rather predictable ways – governed by natural law. Electricity always seeks the pathway of lowest resistance as its primary route to ground, and will traverse, often destructively, any impediment in its path to get to its destination. Thus grounding of elec...

To minimize the risk of equipment damage and operational downtime, LEC strongly recommends suitable Surge protection devices be installed in the right location, in a proper manner and by trained professionals.

General information

Surge is a sudden increase of the high current and voltage of electricity – an occurrence often found in electrical circuits. Surge can damage or delay the circuit operations, halting the production line or affecting computer information syst...

We all know that lightning arrestors and surge protection devices are designed to protect a facility and the assets within from lightning strike by absorbing or dissipating electrical currents and surges. However these devices are not a suitable substitute for good grounding.

Grounding is the most fundamental technique for protection against lightning damage. You can’t stop a lightning surge, but you can give it a direct path to safely discharge into the earth.

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Lightning strikes are expected to increase by 12% by the turn of the century!

This finding simply suggest that an increased activity can be expected in many regions – including areas that have historically seen less activity due to overly humid and wet conditions. And this trend is expected worldwide.Understanding the threat and preparing people, property and places for the increased risk is critical.

Computers and machinery failure can occur due to lightning strikes. Computer systems and networks are now essential elements of our work culture which has roots in almost every industry. Damage to such important devices can be extremely risky to the business. A single devastating lightning strike alone can cause structural and electrical damage, which can result in stalled production and plant shut down.

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A lightning protection design system should be installed to shield and divert lightning strikes which can cause a complete or partial loss of a facility and its content due to fire. A single devastating lightning strike can also cause structural and electrical damage, which can result in stalled production and plant shut down costing millions of dollars.

The LEC lightning protection solutions provide you with the equipment and expertis...

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 enough air gap.

Every year, there are approximately 15-20 million lightning strikes that affect 30% of U.S. businesses. These lightning strikes cause billions in damage and an average facility ...