SAINT ELMO LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR

Lightning is a natural, universal and permanent phenomenon. It occurs daily and strongly in tropical areas. Lightning causes considerable damages and expenses to a country's economy, it also represents a significant and constant threat for the population. Every year some people are killed, mainly while being in open Areas.

Franklin France presents you the Saint-Elme® lightning conductor. It results from the research work conducted with the French Atomic Energy Commission, and is the efficient, inexpensive and clean protection solution, using piezo electric ceramics to transform the wind energy into electric energy.

The basic principle of the Saint-Elme® lightning conductor is to increase the number of free charges (ionized particles and electrons) in the air surrounding the lightning conductor and to create, within a cloud & ground electric field, a channel of high relative conductivity constituting a preferential path for lightning.