How Lightning Preventers Work In Submerging Lightning Strikes That Lead To Homes

How lightning rods work (Freepic)

YOGYKARTA - Installing important rods at home is very important to avoid lightning strikes. This tool is usually installed at the highest part of the building or at the top of the roof. So how does lightning rods work to protect houses when it rains?

Sometimes lightning can strike up to low buildings or parts. This spread is very dangerous because lightning has a large electric voltage. In addition to being able to damage the environment and buildings, lightning can also threaten the life of someone who is hit directly.

Therefore, installing a lightning rod can be a preventive measure to prevent unwanted things from happening when it rains accompanied by lightning. Let's see how lightning rods work on the roof of the house.

Reporting from the book entitled Kuark - Lightning Counter by the Soetopo Title, lightning rods are a tool used as a rescue measure against lightning strikes. This object is in the form of a bullion or milestone in the form of a wire mounted at the highest point of a building.

We often find this object in tall buildings because tall buildings are closer to the sky so that it is more susceptible to lightning strikes. Lightning stoppers must be placed in a higher place than buildings in order to become a means to shorten the distance from electricity to the ground.

The lightning stopper is connected to a slab made of metal. The metal slab is implanted in the ground and connected to a lightning rod at the top of the building through the cable.

The main function of a lightning rod is to save buildings from lightning strikes that have the potential to cause harm, such as the destruction of buildings or fires. This object serves as a medium for generating electricity from lightning strikes to be forwarded to other media such as soil.

The lightning stopper has its own way of working so as to manage to avoid buildings from dangerous lightning strikes. Reporting from the book IPA of Middle School Physics and MTs for Class IX by Mikrajuddin Abdullah, the way lightning rods work is as follows:

A lightning rod consists of various components that make it possible to reduce lightning strikes. The following are some of the components contained in the lightning rod:

Water terms are the tip of the barrier that makes direct contact with lightning. This component is made pointed because the electric charge has an easy nature to assemble and release at the pointed metal tip, making it easier to pull it with the electric charge in the cloud.

Down Conductors is a link between the tip of the barrier and the end of the land. This component is made of a conductor cable from a copper wire network that serves to forward the electric charge from the tip of the barrier to the ground.

This component is the end of land located in the soil that functions to reduce electricity voltage. The Earth terminator needs to be placed away from the base of the building to avoid damage to buildings.

That's an explanation of how lightning rods work that are installed on the roof of a house or building to reduce lightning strikes. Lightning stoppers work by delivering or channeling electric loads from lightning into the ground. Also read how to check the leakage of electricity in the house.

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