True Power is tackling India's lightning fatalities with its advanced lightning arresters and chemical earthing systems. As a ...

Cooper Power Systems has secured acceptance from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), a division of the United States Department of Agriculture, for use of its UltraSIL polymer-housed Evolution ...

Every year, lightning claims more lives in India than any other natural disaster -- over 2,800 of deaths, millions of damages, and rising. Yet, protection remains shockingly neglected. True Power, one ...

Skowronek added that each year millions of distribution-class surge arresters are sold into the market to protect transformers and underground lines. Some large investor-owned utilities estimate that ...

Photovoltaic installations up to 1,000V UCPV can be protected by the prewired combined lightning current and surge arrester developed by Cooper Bussmann, the industry leader in critical circuit ...

This arrester contrasts with lightning protection devices designed for electric grids and power systems, and is in the direct lineage of devices pioneered by Benjamin Franklin in the mid 18th century.

This article was originally published with the title “ A Lightning and Heavy Current Arrester ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 73 No. 23 (December 1895), p. 357 doi:10.1038 ...