LIGHTNING ROD WITH FEEDING DEVICE NIMBUS

Advantages of a system with feeding device:

The Nimbus system releases electrical discharges with opposite polarity to the lightning stokes. This way the system achieves to attract the lightning flash and to raise the strike point to an altitude higher than the stucture to be protected. The effect is that a larger protection area is created than obtained with standard lightning rods.

In the figure it can be seen that the protection area obtained with this system is much larger than that obtained with other protection devices, so that with a single capturing element the protection of buildings and installations with large size can be achieved.

A lightning rod of type Nimbus is not like a singe capturing point of a mesh air-termination system, but rather like all these capturing points which would be needed to protect the area. An important cost saving can be achieved due to the saving of materials such as the number of down-conductors, earth terminations, equipotential bonding, etc.

The system also offers advantages compared to other systems in the protection of open areas such as sport fields, etc.

As a consequence the Nimbus system has several important advantages and a reduced cost compared to other passive capturing systems.