Forecast Earthings range is a fully tested family of stainless steel air terminals in compliance to NFC 17-102. This early streamer emission (ESE) air terminal is a cost-effective solution and is easy to install.

Early streamer emission (ESE) air terminals are especially effective for lightning protection of industrial sites, administrative or public buildings, monuments and open-air sites such as sports grounds, farming grounds etc.

An Early Streamer Emission air terminal, also known as ESE or as an ionizing lightning rod, is an external lightning protection system with innovative technology. This ESE air terminal is also known as active lightning rod.

At its start, the lightning bolt travels through a downward leader that propagates in jumps in any direction. When the bolt approaches the ground, it can hit any object. The aim of the lightning rod is to become the point of discharge of the bolt in order to achieve a controlled impact without damage.

The ESE air terminal emits a continuous upward leader with time of advance to anticipate the descent of lightning and capture it before any other object within its protection area. The time of advance of the ESE determines the protection radius of the ESE air terminal: the more the upward leader anticipates, the higher the downward leader is captured and prevents lightning strikes in a larger area.

The ESE air terminals from Applications Technological contain an electro pulsing generator which emits electrical impulses. In normal conditions the generator is in standby mode. When storm conditions initiate the generator gets activated and remains in precontrol state. The moment the downward leader is within the range of the device, the upward leader is formed, creating the path for the discharge. The current of the bolt passes through the outside of the metallic frame and through the gap to conduct itself towards the ground, without damaging the internal circuit.

The ESE air terminals, unlike other ESE air terminals, are totally autonomous and do not require maintenance.

This unit provides the design engineer with an air termination relatively free of space charges, which is capable of creating ionization and which concentrate electric field to release free electron on the approach of a lightning leader. As a result, mostly only one lightning conductor is required against a large number of Conventional Lightning conductors This Advanced Lightning conductor is a dynamic device which has a very strong central ion generating system that is able to generate ions and requires no external source of power supply.

Lightning strike counter is used for recording number of times a lightning strike occurs from various kinds of lightning eliminators and lightning rod. It is kind of electro mechanical counter with digital display facility, lightning strikes provides valuable information for the maintenance and safety of all structures and its occupants.