How Lightning Protection is Important

A Lightning protection system helps for preventing property damage

from the effects of a lightning strike. It provides a means for controlling
and preventing damages by providing a low resistance path for the
discharge of lightning energy. In this blog, we describe Lightning
protection technique that reduces the lightning strike effect.

What is lightning Arrester and how it works

As a general term, a lightning arrester or lightning arrestor is a

conductive device that allows lightning to ground quickly with the help of
low resistance earthing. It has the ability to ground the potential charges
which occur during lightning.

How it works:

A lightning strike is an electric discharge between the atmosphere and a

conductive object. These kinds of behaviours mostly originate in a
cumulonimbus cloud and defuse on the ground. About 25% of all
lightning events worldwide are striking between the atmosphere and
earth-bound objects.

There are three types of lightning strike comes with the power of
potential damages
Direct lightning Strike: It has huge potential to damages any object
which will come in the range of a direct strike. A human threat can be
resulting in internal burns, organ damage, explosions of flesh and bone,
and nervous system damage. It can also result in the contact injury, side
splash, blast injury to any living things. Humans and animals may quickly
die due to this direct lightning strike. It can also harm your electrical and
electronics appliances very easily.
Indirect lightning Strike: Because the ground has high impedance, the
current “choose” a better conductor, often a person’s legs, passing
through the body. It will also result in more injuries, deaths, and
Hallucinations may be induced in people located within 200 meters of a
severe lightning storm. For the electrical equipment, this indirect
lightning strike can flow through the wires and cable connected to the
appliances directly or indirectly.
Secondary or resultant lightning strike: It may result in Explosions,
Fires, and Accidents could be the cases.
Lightning Protection is important for the building structures
When lightning strikes any building directly, first of all, it damages the
structure of the building. Lightning needs an easy path to get discharge
when current interrupted due to the high resistance path it discharges to
the weakest point of the building structure. In order to avoid damages,
we install a proper lightning arrester. A lightning arrester needs to be
properly designed to ensure that your building is covered in the
protection radius of the lightning arrester. Always appoint a
professional for the Lightning arrestor installation when it comes to
safety. Every building needs to be designed differently. Contact a
lighting arrester specialist. You can contact us for more information. We
are a team of engineers specialized in earthing and lightning protection

Why Lightning arrester is important for human and the buildings

structure from the safety point of view
Lightning is dangerous when it strikes directly to any object whether
living things or on living things. It lightning is dangerous when it strikes
directly to any object whether living things or on living things. It has the
potential to devastate anything within a second. As per the Wikipedia
data about 240,000 incidents regarding lightning strikes happen each
year. On the other hand, according to National Geographic, around
2,000 people die each year from lightning. India state records 36,749
lightning strikes in 13 hours in April 2018 in Andhra Pradesh state as per
BBC news. Kerala is one of the most lightning prone areas in India.
Safety tips when lightning happen

a. If you are outside, understand that you are not safe during

lightning. If thunder is expected, then you should understand

that it can take time to get shelter. Stop all outside work and

immediately move to the nearest shelter. Most accidents

occur due to the unavailability of shelter around the earliest.

b. Take shelter inside a large building or car.

Get out of the wide, open spaces and away from exposed

mountainous area

c. If you are on a road or highway, make sure you move to a

safe place as soon as possible. Stay in the vehicle and keep

the emergency flashers on until the storm strikes. Try to

avoid touching metal or other surfaces which is conductive

d. If you have no shelter anywhere, make yourself as small a

target as possible by bending your legs together, hands on

the knees and tucking your head.

 e. Do not take shelter under tall or isolated trees

f. If you are on the water, get to the coast and far, open

beaches as quickly as possible

a. You can use a cellular or cordless phone during a storm, but

do not use landline phones that are connected to a wire.

Stay away from windows and doors. Also, avoid taking a

bath or shower during storms. Water is a conductor of

electricity, so if lightning strikes a fire in your home during a

storm then it can shock you in the shower through the water.

Lightning protection is important for electrical and electronics

equipment’s
It is important to understand that lightning arrester can only protect
your building structure. It does not give the 100% guarantee to protect
your equipment. If you are really want to protect your appliances
especially if it is expensive then kindly contact to expert for the
protection of the equipment. Due to high surges generated nearby
your areas from lightning. It comes through your electrical wire and
damages the equipment. Because most of the electrical and electronic
equipment is design to resist a maximum of 240 to 350V it may
damages when surges come through wires and directly shocked the
devices. In order to protect the equipment, you may install the
SPD(surge protection device). It is specially designed to protect
equipment. For that, you need to contact the lighting protection expert
they will guide you properly. You can also contact us for the same.
You can contact our specialized team for Earthing and Lightning
Protection
For proper earthing and lightning protection, you may consider calling
us. We have a special team for Earthing and Lightning. our company
specialized in chemical earthing, and we have both conventional and
ESE lightning arrester. We do both supply and installation. you may call
us at- 0522-2751600, 9936476665, or Mail - info@remediessystems.com