·Lightning disaster seems very far away from daily life, but every year it will bring a lot of losses to the public.Recently, the reporter interviewed city weather bureau concerned staff, ask them to introduce residential lightning protection knowledge for the public.
It was reported that Zhuhai is a typical lightning disasters area, now, a lot of construction of lightning protection devices are hidden trouble, especially along with the increase in urban high-rise building, communications equipment, computers and other weak anti-interference ability of modern equipment is more and more popular, a lot of electrical appliances in your home may be "lead thunder home", light strikes the bad electric appliances, or life-threatening. Therefore, buying a new house must check whether there is "lightning protection device acceptance certificate".
Professional personage says, the citizen judges his residence whether lightning protection, can check whether the residence has lightning protection facilities qualified certificate; Check whether there is a safe lightning protection facilities on the roof of the residence, namely lightning rod or lightning belt; Check whether the power distribution box has a surge protection grounding terminal. Check whether the electrical outlet in the house has a safety grounding wire; Whether the large metal doors, Windows and other metal structures of the outer wall of high-rise residential buildings should take safety grounding measures; Whether there is an equal potential box (row) in the house, the device is generally preinstalled in the bathroom; Whether the iron beyond the roof is connected to the top lightning protection device, such as solar water heater, water tank, etc.
Source: Lightning Protection Network
