In recent years, natural anomalies and cataclysms have become increasingly frequent and intense. Lightning among them occupy a rather significant place, as evidenced by the attention paid to this natural phenomenon in the media.
Lightning in the house can cause extremely serious consequences, which can not be predicted. Therefore, protecting your own home from this natural spark, capable in a flash of depriving you of all property, is an important and compulsory business for any homeowner. In fact, installing a lightning rod is not so difficult, so it is possible for every person.
Lightning strikes Lightning, which is a spark of electrical origin, as if searching for the most suitable metal conductor for it, capable of assisting it in the fastest possible achievement of the earth. If you look at any house, which may well have a metal roof, various antennas, a chimney covered with zinc and similar objects, then for lightning it represents a clear interest, which for you can turn into a disaster.
To protect the house from lightning, it is necessary to build a lightning rod, or lightning rod. Many homeowners fix the lightning rod directly on the roof of the house, but it would be more reasonable to supply a separate tower for this. Why is this option more reasonable? The thing is that lightning is always looking for the shortest path.
Take on the construction of the lightning rod
First of all, you need to choose a place to install a lightning rod on your site. As a rule, a lightning rod is recommended to be installed at a distance of several meters from the house, and this can be done even on the border of the site. Moreover, by placing a lightning rod on the border with neighbors, you can use their help during construction, since the security zone from the lightning rod will also capture their territory.
When choosing the height of a lightning rod, it must be taken into account that it must be at least 2 meters higher than your house. But it should not be too high not to attract lightning, which could potentially bypass it.
Next, you will need to mount a tower that will carry lightning protection elements. The construction of the tower can be determined independently, not forgetting that in its middle there must be some space where the conductor should be laid, which will play the role of grounding. At the top of the tower, you must install the clamps to which you need to attach a rod of copper or aluminum, connected by a wire with ground. After digging a pit at least 2 meters deep, install a prepared tower in it.
Having strengthened the tower in the ground, it is necessary to connect the lightning protection with grounding. To equip the ground around the tower it is necessary to draw an equilateral triangle, into the tops of which it is necessary to drive copper rods or reinforcement to a depth of 2 meters, which will play the role of grounding circuits. Having hammered the rods, they must be joined together by means of rods of the same material.
At the final stage, connect the lightning conductor to ground. And this will be the last operation to create a reliable protection against lightning.
In order for the structure constructed by you to be a reliable protection, all connections must be made with special care. The used conductor can be laid in the corrugation to protect it from oxidation, which significantly reduces its conductive properties. To protect the tower from corrosion, it can be painted without applying, however, paint to lightning protection equipment.
