LECO introduces surge protection equipment

A stream of silver lines descending from heavens, lightening surely is impressive to behold. Charming and intriguing as it is, lightening can be lethal too. It has destroyed many a human life and caused quite a lot of damage to electrical equipment as well. Statistics reveal that the occurrence of lightning has aggravated recently, due to various environmental changes all over the world. Worthiness of classifying lightning strikes Why does lightening cause so much of damage is worth studying. Actually this cause of damage is due to two different strokes, based on the way of entry of lightning into the building. These strokes are basically known as direct strokes and indirect strokes. Direct lightning happen due to interception of...

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Battle of the Current - Paving the way of battle

Electricity is the key to make us masters of our environment, and most of us take it as a crucial part of our lives. But 150 years ago this was not the case. In the middle of the 19th century labor took place at only sun lit day time, and work itself was manual in slow motion without the aid of machinery. At night people stayed at home to avoid associated risks at night. Over the next century and half we transformed the environment dominated us to an environment dominated by us. Today we experience an electrified environment that responds to our many needs, with power that was transmitted through hundreds of miles in an interconnected transmission grid. Emerging concept of electricity In 600BC Greeks first discovered the static electricity...

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