CTS (Charge Transfer System) Lightning Rods base their principle in air deionization . Their main objective is to avoid saturation of electrostatic charge between the earth installation and the atmosphere that surrounds us, peacefully compensating the difference of electric potential in the area during the first process of lightning formation.
CTS Lightning Rods
Basic Characteristics.
Known for facilitating electrostatic charge transfer between clouds and the earth before the second process of lightning formation, voiding the ionization phenomenon or crown effect in the structure or earth installation.
The Lightning Rod Terminal has two aluminum electrodes separated by a dielectric isolator. All of this is supported by a small stainless steel mast. Its shape is spherical and the system is connected in series between the earth and the surrounding atmosphere.
During the storm process a high tension field on earth proportional to the cloud’s charge and its gap’s distance to the floor is generated.
From a magnitude of the natural electric field on earth, the installation of the lightning rod equipment facilitates the charger’s transfer through the electric cable. These charges, despite their polarity, are located in the lightning rod’s bottom electrode that is connected to ground by the electric cable and situated at the top of the installation.
Low resistance of the lightning rod’s bottom electrode at the top of the installation facilitates attraction of opposite charges in the upper electrode. During this process of energy transfer, a small flow of current between the anode and the cathode happens internally in the lightning rod. .
The resulting effect generates a current discharge that leads to the installation’s grounding and is proportional to the cloud’s charge. During the storm’s maximum activity process, transfer values of up to 300 milliamps can be registered through the lightning rod’s installation cable.
The installation’s electrostatic charge is progressively compensated to earth as the potential difference between cloud and earth increases, neutralizing the effect ground point in 100% of all cases (Tracer or Leader).The lightning rod’s Terminal does not incorporate any radioactive source.
The effect of constantly dissipating the electric field from high tension in the protection zone ensures that the air around does not go over the rupture tension avoiding possible sparks, frying noise, radiofrequency, conducer’s vibrations and lightning strike.
The objective of the installation group is designed as Protection System Against Lightning (SPCR) where the main goal is to avoid the formation and discharge of lightning in the protection zone. The system is effective in a 100% of normal cases.
In an extreme case of coinciding lightning atmospheric electric activity, air ionization through solar radiation or solar storms and increase of atmospheric pollution due to volcano eruptions or tornados, the CTS Lightning Rod can saturate and not assume all the charge transfer; at that moment the CTS Lightning Rod can work as a capturing lightning rod producing at that instant a silent visual lightning, with no energy and without electromagnetic repercussions.
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