Lightning Warning Systems to Protect Homes and Industries

Technically, lightening is defined as the electrostatic discharge between the charged clouds or the clouds and the earth surface. The dangerous part is when it strikes the earth and enters your home. There are three main ways through which it could enter your space is through a direct strike, through electric wires or by piping system. Regardless how it enters your system, but once it enters it could easily travel through wires, phone systems, plumbing, radio and television systems and cause disastrous damages. Such lightening hazards can be mitigated by general alertness and proper planning. A prominent part of such a system could be an early detection and warning alarm systems.

A good detector exists in our brains. If you hear a thunder you can judge that that the lightening is within your hearing range. If you see the light but is not able to hear the thunder then that particular lightening is beyond your hearing range. But to be safe you can use specialized detecting devices installed at your home. Lightening monitoring systems are electronic devices that can give sufficient notice before the actual strike and induce shut down of all operations. Such detection devices also give an all clear condition if the lightening threat had passed your area. These are also helpful in issues like warning, liabilities and negligence.

The available lightening devices work on the following technologies-:

1) RF Detectors- These instruments measure electrical discharges and could calculate the approximate distance and direction of the threat as well.

2) Inferometers- These are multi station devices that can determine the threat much more precisely. Skilled operators are required to handle such devices.

3) Network Systems- These are employed for wide geographical areas and are generally employed by the meteorological departments.

4) Electrical field Mills- These are actually pre –lightening equipments and could measure the change in the earth’s potential gradient and report it. These could be used for any possible thunderstorms in the near future.

5) Optical Monitors- These are electronic devices that could provide early warning as they can detect cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning. These instruments are often accompanied by specialized software that could initiate force shut down of equipments as well. It is ideal for industrial applications.

6) Hybrid Systems- These detection systems are a unique combination of technological designs such as RF and light ort magnetic recognition. So through such devices you can get lightening information from more than one source.

A detection system comes with an alarm to alert you from the possible dangers and suitable evacuation could be done. Moreover they are generally accompanied with a particular software technology that can initiate shut down of the running systems. If you are planning to install detection device at your home or industry then you can search the internet about various manufacturers’ and suppliers. But before selecting the one do check that the instruments are safety approved and are of good quality.

About the Author-

Wxline is a premium provider of storm and lightening detection devices. Their lightning monitoring system is a patented technology.