What Is The Function Of The Ground Rod in The Lightning Protection System？

The copper clad steel grounding rod is used for the vertical grounding body in the grounding network. The grounding plays an important role in the entire lightning protection system, which affects the anti-direct lightning effect of the entire lightning protection system. The direct thunder is discharged into the ground through the lightning arrester/lightning belt and other lightning device, and then the grounding network affects the overall effect. In foreign countries, galvanized round steel has been replaced by copper-coated ground rods (copper-clad steel ground rods), precisely because the effect of copper-coated ground rods is several times higher than that of galvanized round steel. The grounding rod is 99.99% electrolytic copper electroplating to the surface of the steel, the binding degree is high, no gap, any bending will not produce copper stripping phenomenon, and because the surface of the round steel is high purity electrolytic copper, so the conductive properties of the copper-plated grounding rod can be comparable to that of pure copper, is now the preferred grounding material for power engineering, petrochemical engineering, communication engineering and so on.