What are 4 Lightning Scenarios that Cause Problems? Part 5
In this episode, E&S Grounding Solutions President David Stockin discusses Part 5 of a 5-part series about lightning strike scenarios and the ways to protect against them. In the previous four episodes, we discussed the 4 lightning scenarios that cause damage: cloud-to-cloud strikes, nearby ground strikes, strike to incoming power lines, and finally direct strikes to your building. These problems can be resolved with the following lightning protection strategies: First, a Fran...
28 Des 202216min
What are 4 Lightning Scenarios that Cause Problems? Part 4
In this episode, E&S Grounding Solutions President David Stockin discusses Part 4 of a 5-part series about lightning strike scenarios and the ways to protect against them. Direct lightning strikes are the fourth and least common scenario that can damage your building. However, a direct lightning strike can be very powerful and cause major damage. The odds of a direct strike to your building will depend on the lightning strike frequency in your area. Due to the high curre...
14 Des 20228min
What are 4 Lightning Scenarios that Cause Problems? Part 3
In this episode, E&S Grounding Solutions President David Stockin discusses Part-3 of a 5-part series about lightning strike scenarios and the ways to protect against them. Ground strikes are the second most common source of lightning damage, due to the direct coupling of ground currents traveling through the earth and into the concrete encased steel components of a structure. These steel components will need to form there own magnetic fields which in turn will can cause damage to e...
21 Okt 20227min
What are 4 Lightning Scenarios that Cause Problems? Part 2
In this episode, E&S Grounding Solutions President David Stockin discusses Part-2 of a 5-part series about lightning strike scenarios and the ways to protect against them. Ground strikes are the second most common source of lightning damage, due to the direct coupling of ground currents traveling through the earth and into the concrete encased steel components of a structure. These steel components will need to form there own magnetic fields which in turn will can cause damage ...
4 Okt 20226min
What are 4 Lightning Scenarios that Cause Problems? Part 1
In this episode, E&S Grounding Solutions President David Stockin discusses Part-1 of a 5-part series about lightning strike scenarios and the ways to protect against them. Air-to-Air strikes are the most common source of lightning damage, due to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and the damage this interference causes to electronic systems. Understanding how the EMF from lightning cause damage to your structures is key to understanding why the solutions work and how lightning prote...
16 Sep 20228min
What are Ground Loops?
E&S Grounding Solutions President David Stockin responds to viewers' questions about the differences between ground “loops” and ground “rings”. Ground loops are a common term that is often ill defined and even more often used inappropriately. Typically, ground loops are used to define a process where the return currents (neutral currents) are allowed to travel back to the source on the normally-non-current-carrying-exposed-conductive-parts of a circuit, in violation of NEC 250.6 –Objectio...
29 Jun 20229min
How Can Step-Voltage Accidents be Prevented?
In this episode, E&S Grounding Solutions President David Stockin responds to viewers questions about the dangers of Step Voltages. Step voltages are a very dangerous and unseen hazard. Primarily caused by lightning strikes or downed power lines, step voltages are large differences in potential that are a short distance from each other, which can turn the person or animal taking the step to become a conduit that the electrons use to flow from one potential to the other. David describes the...
19 Mai 20228min
The Importance of Addressing Grounding Systems at the Beginning of the Project
In this episode, E&S Grounding Solutions President DavidStockin goes into detail on the importance of addressing your grounding system during the design process and how not doing so can cause costs to dramatically increase. David discusses the issues that can arise when grounding is an afterthought instead of a forethought and tells us a few of the details and standards that must be covered. For a video of this podcast, please visit our YouTube Channel at E&S Grounding Solutions. ...
28 Apr 202214min
