Considering these numbers, it's essential for every organization to analyze facilities and operations to identify lightning vulnerability. Designs and operational means to deflect potential accidents ...

Lightning Protection Institute provides the highest standards and guidelines for the design, installation and inspection of lightning protection systems.

Without question, a thunderstorm is very dangerous. It can produce high winds, tornados, hail, and floods, which usually are not big problems for boats or ships. But it also creates ESD events called ...

Ed Lobnitz, retired principal/senior electrical engineer at TLC Engineering Solutions, wrote the chapter on lightning protection for towers that has appeared in several editions of the NAB Engineering ...

Legislators this year set aside about $300,000 for installation of a lightning protection system for the state capitol. Hunter says some preliminary planning has been done, and the design will fit ...

A lightning protection system gives electrical discharges an easy path to the earth, usually routing it around the outside of the structure. At its most basic, it consists of a metal lightning rod ...

Franklin-type lightning rods protect WTIs against direct lightning strikes. But complete lightning protection in accordance with IEC 61024-1 only comes through the use of a lightning current arrester.

NASA released a video that shows over 10 years of lightning bolts striking the protection system at Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Lightning hitting airplanes is commonplace and, though lightning has downed several commercial aircraft, it rarely leads to catastrophe thanks to modern protection systems.