Business View Magazine Apr-2023

75 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 4 L IGHTNING EL IMINAT ION AND CONSULTANTS “Our approach is the complete opposite. We do not want lightning striking your facility because you must deal with all the energy in that lightning strike, in many cases well over 500,000 amps in 20 microseconds.” “Our technology, about 50 years old, lowers the static field in the protected area long enough for the lightning strike to terminate outside the protected area. Since all sites are different, our engineers custom design each installation, guaranteeing maximum protection and uptime.” LEC commenced operations when Roy Carpenter, Peter Carpenter’s father, founded the company in 1971. “My father was working in the space program for the Apollo missions, and part of his responsibility was to evaluate the risk of mission reliability,” Carpenter narrates. “Most spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, which gets approximately 100 days of lightning a year.” “When evaluating the probability of a mission