Lighnting Rods On Roof

Heavy steel mount 585h wall bracket 49 00 12 l x 6 5 h 5 h.

Lighnting rods on roof.

It is a very common misconception that a lightning rod attracts lightning. Roof mount 401 al 49 00 adjustable aluminum with stainless steel screws. Roof rod and mounting saddle available as follows. Large roof mount u w132 39 00.

Look at our pages and for our fancy lightning rods. Near the bottom of the structure is a glass ball that can be very plain or made of colored glass. The most obvious above roof components are air terminals formerly called lightning rods. 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.

Large non residential buildings like this church often include more than one lightning rod. Easy fit saddle base will form to fit any pitch roof. X 12 rod part number rsp1 and arsp1. Lightning tends to strike the highest point in any terrain but lightning can also be capricious random.

A braided copper or aluminum cable made for lightning systems connects the rods and runs into the ground to dissipate a charge. They must be located at the highest points on a roof. When lightning rods are separate from weather vanes they have five parts including the cable that runs to the ground. 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.

Used most and is the standard method for regular lightning rod systems. 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. Let us understand it this way.

Swivel mount base with lightning rod. C 16 12 with 12 rod 34 50 c 16 18 with 18 rod 40 50. The very top ends at a point that is attached to a metal rod. Lightning rods are typically installed around the perimeter of flat roofs or along the peaks of sloped roofs at intervals of 6 1 m or 7 6 m depending on the height of the rod.

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. Large decorative roof mount.