Home Lightning Protection

Lightning Protection

Lightning protection requires a multi-step solution. Things you can do to help protect your home from lightning damage include better grounding of your electrical system to Earth and the use of surge protectors.

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An older electric meter and fuse box located inside a basement adjacent to the foundation wall. The armored grounding electrode conductor is coming out of the bottom of the meter socket.

Basement Electric Meter

The interior of an active outdoor electrical panel with a white wire being used as one of the LINE conductors feeding the panel. The equipment grounding conductor is being used as a neutral which can cause phantom voltage.

Phantom Voltage

The spines of a few National Electrical Code books

Free National Electrical Code

Grounding Electrode System

A permanently installed surge protection device

Surge Protectors

The Telephone and Cable TV Demarcations were Grounded to an Old Pipe

Grounding TV and Telephone

Intersystem Bonding Termination

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