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Alltec Corporation’s lightning protection, grounding, and power quality products and services can protect any operation, property, or personnel from the risks of lightning strikes, be it a direct strike or secondary effects caused by nearby strikes.
Alltec Corporation is an international, full service manufacturing facility of lightning protection and grounding systems. Our complete catalog of lightning protection, grounding, and surge suppression products, is available online for your convenience. If you have any questions about our products and services, please contact us, and one of our customer service representatives will be happy to assist you.
The Lightning Phenomenon
How Lightning is formed & its effects.
Lightning, an awesome and terrifying natural phenomenon, is really nothing more than an electrical discharge that happens to be at an enormous voltage. Lightning equalizes a difference of electrical potential, whether it is between a cloud and the ground, between two clouds, or between two different areas of the same cloud. Due to various mechanisms in storm cloud formation, such as the rising and falling of air currents carrying moisture and ice particles, the storm cloud generates an electrical charge at its base. Charged regions in a thundercloud create conductive ionization channels through the atmosphere called “stepped leaders,” while an opposite electrical charge or “shadow” accumulates on the ground below. Read article »
Charge Dissipation Terminals
CDT
TerraStat® is the latest design in lightning dissipation technology. Science and experience show that TerraStat® Charge Dissipation Terminals, and the structures on which they are installed, are much less likely to sustain a direct lightning strike than unprotected structures or structures with traditional lightning protection systems. Read more »
Early Streamer Emission Terminals
ESE
Alltec Corporation is proud to offer our new line of Early Streamer
Emission terminals for structural lightning protection. The TerraStreamer® ESE
utilizes advanced electronics to provide lightning protection to facilities
that would otherwise be difficult or cost prohibitive to protect by
conventional means.
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Low-Resistivity Grounding Backfill
TerraFill® is an easily applied product which produces lower steady state and stable grounding impedance. It produces lower surge impedance resulting in faster transient dissipation. Manufactured from environmentally safe and stable products, TerraFill® has an excellent shelf life and long term storage has no performance effects. Read more »
Transient Voltage Surge Suppression
TVSS
Proper grounding alone will not protect a facility from damage due to surges, transients, and lightning. An effective combination of lightning protection, facility grounding, equipment bonding, and properly installed PowerTrip® TVSS devices on all circuit conductors maximizes total site protection. Read more »
Electrolytic Grounding Systems
EGS
TerraDyne® EGS is a multipurpose grounding system. It has been designed to provide long term protection from lightning, electrical transients, static discharges, electro-magnetic interference and other electrical hazards. The system may be used for virtually any application where the protection of machinery, electronics, and personnel is important. Read more »
Exothermic Welding
The TerraWeld® Exothermic Welding System provides the ultimate in permanent molecular bonding. The process of exothermic welding, in which no outside source of heat or power is required, is the universally preferred method of making electrical connections of copper-to-copper or copper-to-steel. Read more »
