Lightning protection?

[The Iceman]

I was recently asked a true false question on a practice exam about lightning protection. Lightning protection is intended to protect the electronics inside the building? I answered true and got the question wrong. I thought lightning protection was to provide a low impedance path to earth to stop surface arcing and help protect electronics inside a building.

 

[dereckbc]

No loghtning protection is made to protect the quipment inside, so the right answer is FALSE.

LP is to protect against fire from lightning strikes.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

I was recently asked a true false question on a practice exam about lightning protection. Lightning protection is intended to protect the electronics inside the building? I answered true and got the question wrong. I thought lightning protection was to provide a low impedance path to earth to stop surface arcing and help protect electronics inside a building.

I think the issue here is yes it protects the electronics but it also protects other equipment that don't have electronics. Thus you would not say that lightning protection is to protect electronic equipment but rather all equipment.

Badly worded question. If it had said only electronic equipment it would have been easier to understand.

 

[bphgravity]

I too would have answered false. LPS's are not exclusively installed for the protection of electrically related equipment. Remember the first LPS's installed by Franklin was over 100 years before the introduction of electricity into homes. LPS's protect the structure from fire, bottom line. If by chance it protects the mechanical components of the structure, including the electrical system, it was simply GOOD LUCK.