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    The document provides information on lightning protection standards and guidelines for calculating the coverage area of air terminals on buildings. It discusses IEC 62305, NFPA 780, and DEHN lightning protection guides as sources for lightning protection design. It also provides formulas for calculating the radius of protection for Franklin rod air terminals and the number of down conductors required based on the building's base area and perimeter.

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    The document provides information on lightning protection standards and guidelines for calculating the coverage area of air terminals on buildings. It discusses IEC 62305, NFPA 780, and DEHN lightning protection guides as sources for lightning protection design. It also provides formulas for calculating the radius of protection for Franklin rod air terminals and the number of down conductors required based on the building's base area and perimeter.

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    The document provides information on lightning protection standards and guidelines for calculating the coverage area of air terminals on buildings. It discusses IEC 62305, NFPA 780, and DEHN lightning protection guides as sources for lightning protection design. It also provides formulas for calculating the radius of protection for Franklin rod air terminals and the number of down conductors required based on the building's base area and perimeter.

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    IEC 62305 2nd Edition

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    The document provides information on lightning protection standards and guidelines for calculating the coverage area of air terminals on buildings. It discusses IEC 62305, NFPA 780, and DEHN lightning protection guides as sources for lightning protection design. It also provides formulas for calculating the radius of protection for Franklin rod air terminals and the number of down conductors required based on the building's base area and perimeter.

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    The text discusses lightning protection and arresting, and references several standards and guides for more information, including IEC 62305, DEHN, NFPA 780, AS1768.

    Standards mentioned include IEC 62305, NFPA 780, AS1768.

    Lightning protection, which aims to attract lightning to set locations and provide a controlled path to ground, and lightning arresting, which aims to conduct high voltages to ground to protect electrical equipment.

    You should look for you answers in IEC 62305 2nd edition, parts 1 (for an introduction) & 3 (for

    detailed explanation). Another source of info is the DEHN lightning protection guide which can be freely downloaded from their website NFPA 780 would be another good start for informaton. think you need to be a little clearer in what you are asking and trying to achieve. Are you trying to place lightning dods on the highest points of the building to attract lightning to set locations from which you then provide heavy conductor connections directly to earth so that you control the path of lightning currents rather than allowing them to

    pass anywhere they like through the building structure. This is lightning protection and is protection for the structure. It is suaually accomplished using air terminals on the highest part of the building with one or more down conductor connections into a buried earth grid. You can get some guidance on the coverage of air terminals from standards such as AS1768 or equivalent other British, intenational or American standards. It may also be worth talking to lightning protection experts such as Erico as there are many types of lightning conductors, other than simple rods, which provide improved areas of coverage. or Are you trying to connect lightning devices to electrical systems which may have components outdorrs and subject to lightning strike in order to conduct the high impulse voltage to ground to pretect internal electrical

    equipment from the excessive voltage spike. This is lightning arresting. My problem is to know if there is a formula to calculate the maximum area one air teminal should cover, Assume the building has four point of the same level of which i can put air terminal, should i put air terminal in all points i must make some calculations to know how many i should connect. The formula for the lightning protection, Franklim pole type: Rp=h*tan A Where Rp is the radius of protection of a cone defined by the formula, with the height h in meters (h is the top point of the pole) and A is the angle in degrees at the top, that usually is 55 for a class IV degree of protection. For an electronic protection pole, the formula is rader complicated, and for

    that you should contact the manufacters because they have tables for each equipment. The number of down conductors can be determined as follows: 1-One conductor for a structure whose base area does not exceed100 sq m

    2-Determine the whole numbers N1 and N2, and select the smaller of the two N1=1+(A-100)/300

    N2=P/30

    Where N=whole number of the working area A=base area of the structure in sq m P=perimeter of the structure in m

    3-Where the height of the structure is more than 30m in height, additional considerations to the above should be applied.

    The lightning arrestor will be inthe midlle Q=L+W L=Roof long demention

    W= Roof waid demention h= hight of lightning arrestor Z= buildind hight if Z<30m .h=0.5Q+1 IfZ >30m h=(3/5)Q

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