Lighnting Rods On Roof

A lightning protection system on a residential home is basically comprised of the same materials and installed in the same way as a larger building but the larger building may have multiple rods and several conductors running to the ground.

Lighnting rods on roof.

A braided copper or aluminum cable made for lightning systems connects the rods and runs into the ground to dissipate a charge. The most obvious above roof components are air terminals formerly called lightning rods. Easy fit saddle base will form to fit any pitch roof. The very top ends at a point that is attached to a metal rod.

A 16 12 with 12 rod 24 50. Lightning tends to strike the highest point in any terrain but lightning can also be capricious random. It is a very common misconception that a lightning rod attracts lightning. The only aim of a lightning strike is to neutralize itself with the ground.

Used most and is the standard method for regular lightning rod systems. Heavy steel mount 585h wall bracket 49 00 12 l x 6 5 h 5 h. C 16 12 with 12 rod 34 50 c 16 18 with 18 rod 40 50. Look at our pages and for our fancy lightning rods.

Large roof mount u w132 39 00. Swivel mount base with lightning rod. Large non residential buildings like this church often include more than one lightning rod. They must be located at the highest points on a roof.

Large decorative roof mount. This is our most versatile mount and will adapt to most any application and any angle for sloped roof side or top of wall mounting behind ridge vent etc. A lightning rod is erected on the roof of a building and it is connected to a conducting channel to take the huge discharge of electricity into the ground. Does a metal roof need a lightning rod attached.

Rods at least 1o higher than the structure are placed at intervals along high points such as the roof crest ridge chimney or along the perimeter of a flat roof. When lightning rods are separate from weather vanes they have five parts including the cable that runs to the ground. X 12 rod part number rsp1 and arsp1. Roof rod and mounting saddle available as follows.

Let us understand it this way. Steel roofing materials are no more attractive to lightning than any other type of roofing material.