Review the Standards Behind Successful Lightning and Surge Protection

Lightning and surge system design impacts on the structure, mechanical equipment, appliances, and – most importantly – the safety of your home.  When selecting a company to work with, there are many factors to consider.  Not all lightning protection installers are licensed electricians or certified installers.

As a division of an experienced and well respected technical services company, Florida Lightning Protection can offer all of the services you require for complete protection. Because we are a licensed electrical contractor, we can offer turn key systems – from design to installation. We adhere to all applicable codes, standards and specifications to provide the protection you need.

You can access the technical documents and specifications for the products and installation processes we use in residential lightning and surge systems below.

• Structural Lightning Protection:
  • Installation of The Preventor – Manufacturers Installation Standard HBP-21
  • Heary Bros. Lightning Protection Systems – Master Specification
  • Determining Delta L for Air Terminals
  • Preventor System Specifications
  • Annual Inspection Docs
  • Preventor Brochure
  • Third Party Survey of Preventor Performance – Research conducted with Preventor customers regarding product performance and satisfaction based on field experience.
  • Engineer’s Evaluation – personal evaluation and testimonial from experienced electrical engineer employed by NASA
• Surge Protection:
  • Diagram of Residential Surge Protection Devices:  TPS Selector Guide For Upscale Residential
• Grounding / Earthing:
  • Soil Resistivity Report Example
• Lightning Protection Topics:
  • Study of Ionizing Air Terminals:  An experimental study of the performance of ionizing air terminals versus non-ionizing air terminal. Radioactive sources were used to obtain ionization of the air surrounding the tip of the air terminals.
  • NIST Overview of ESE:  The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s overview of Early Streamer Emission devices.  Includes definitions of terms and a discussion of the characteristics of lightning.  The overview also offers a summary of available materials describing ESE devices, testing, modeling and validation.
  • Advancement of Lightning Protection:  An opinion regarding the history and advances in the lightning protection industry during the 20th century.