lightning protection
Strike diversion system
Lightning protection encompasses systems and techniques designed to safeguard structures, equipment, and people from lightning strikes.
A typical system includes metal rods mounted at high points, conductors running down the structure, and grounding electrodes to channel electrical current safely into the earth.
The goal is not to prevent strikes but to provide a preferred path that bypasses vulnerable elements: The barn survived thanks to its lightning protection system.
- direct hitStrike exactly on target
- air terminalPassenger aviation facility
- tall buildingsLofty urban structures
- ground rodBuried conductor for earthing
- electrical dischargeSudden flow through gap
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- power gridpower grid, power plant, transformers, power station, transmission lines
- arboriculturepruning, tree care, tree surgery, espalier, pollarding
- broadcast equipmentbroadcast camera, broadcast tower, broadcast antenna, antenna array, transmitter
- broadcast facilitiesbroadcast studio, broadcast towers, broadcast tower, broadcast equipment, broadcast center
- Flight Safetyoxygen mask, life vest, emergency exit, seat belt, black box
- solar farmssolar panels, solar arrays, photovoltaic panels, photovoltaic cells, inverters
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