Lightning Protection Products

Lightning is an awesome and unpredictable act of nature. It causes more deaths and property damage than any other weather related event. In the United States alone, lightning detection systems monitor an average of 25 million flashes of lightning from cloud to ground every year, and lightning is reported to cause more than $2 billion damage annually. Luckily, it is economically viable to protect oneself from lightning strikes. A properly installed lightning protection system is over 98% effective in preventing lightning damage. It is a tried and true method that has been used for over one-hundred years. In fact, Benjamin Franklin is credited with inventing lightning rods after his famous kite experiment that dates back to 1752.

With the proper lightning protection system you can rest assured that your investments, operations, and personnel will be protected. Alltec's charge dissipation terminals, early streamer emission Terminals, and traditional lightning protection components each have its unique method of effectively protecting you from lightning damages:

• TerraStat products incorporate electrodes that break down into corona before streamers can form; these terminals lower accumulated static charges, consequently mitigating or delaying upward streamer generation, thus mitigating the likelihood of a lightning strike.
• TerraStreamer products combine the advantages of two systems: the preferred path to ground of a conventional system and state-of-the-art early streamer emitter technology. TerraStreamer increases the effective protection area up to 800 times more than that of a conventional lightning rod.
• Traditional Lightning Protection components that constitute a conventional system provide preferred points for lightning termination and safely carry it to ground, further dissipating the energy.

TerraStat, TerraStreamer and traditional lightning protection are featured components of Alltec Corporation's Protection Pyramid. The third tier of protection in the Alltec Protection Pyramid is completed when a well designed customized lightning protection system is installed to safeguard facilities against direct lightning strikes. Regardless of the system chosen for your lightning protection specifications, Alltec's quality, performance and durability is guaranteed.