Furse Total Solution to Earthing & Lightning Protection

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Introduction Total Solution
Why is a Total Solution to earthing
& lightning protection important?
Lightning is one of nature’s most powerful and
destructive phenomena.
Lightning contains awesome amounts of
electrical energy. Lightning discharges have been
measured from several thousand to over 200,000
Amps (enough to light half a million 100 Watt
bulbs) and even though of a very short duration,
can cause tremendous damage and destruction.
The effects of a direct strike are obvious and
immediately apparent - buildings damaged, trees
blown apart, personal injuries and even loss of life.
However, the secondary effects of lightning - the
short duration, high voltage spikes called transient
overvoltages - can, and do, cause equally catastrophic,
if less visually obvious, damage to electronic systems
within structures.
We continually meet people who have structural
lightning protection for their building, but have
suffered damage to the - unprotected - systems within.
Simply put, a structural lightning protection system
cannot and will not protect electronic systems from
lightning currents and transient overvoltages.
Structural lightning protection
From Furse air termination systems including air
rods and strike plates to capture lightning
strikes, through to our comprehensive range of
down conductors and lightning protection
components which channel lightning energy
safely to a Furse earth termination network.
Air termination systems
Lightning protection conductors
Conductor clips, clamps and holdfasts
Bimetallic connection components
Earthing
The combination of Furse earth electrodes,
clamps, conductors and equipotential bonding
bars which provide lightning and transient
overvoltage energy with an effective, low
resistance route from the lightning protection
system to earth.
Earth rods and conductor systems
Mechanical earth clamps and bonds
FurseWELD exothermic welding
Earth bars and equipotential bonding