Tennessee is one of four states in the country to report a lightning-related death so far in 2018.Bill Thackett lives in Greeneville, Tennessee, and he's known as the Lightning Rod Man. He was ...

Lightning rods (and the accompanying protection system) are designed to protect a house or building from a direct lightning strike and, in particular, a lightning-initiated fire.

Harger Lightning & Grounding proudly introduces its new Ground Rod Driver. The Ground Rod ... The Ground Rod Driver provides a safe, simple, effective and affordable way to install ground rods.

Lightning tries to get from its strike point -- normally a ridge, corner or edge of the roof line or to a projecting body -- to ground. It will follow the easiest path, which could be along metal ...

It's a common mistake to test something other than the grounding system and then conclude the grounding system is good ... IEEE-142, the Green Book, differentiates between "static grounding" and ...

Lightning strikes hit anywhere so one expert goes over what Arizona homeowners can do to protect their houses from lightning.

People can install lightning rods – which conduct the charge be conducted to ground through a wire, ... installs a Franklin Rod System that costs about $2,000 for the average home.

The lightning will travel through the system and into the ground. This lightning protection provides a safe path for lightning to travel through the structure and dissipate to the ground level ...

An air terminal is located in the tree top to catch the strike and a copper cable “down-conductor” which directs the charge to a grounding rod system to dissipate the energy in the earth.