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Originally Posted by Quixote
On the one question highlighted above, it is my understanding based on my research at the time we had a LPS installed that the system does not attract OR repel lightning.
We had our system installed primarily because our home has natural gas. This is not distributed throughout the house with, say, the black pipe that we knew up north but rather by a material far more flimsy (for lack of a better word but meaning essentially the same. And of course gas is distributed through the attic and then dropped down the walls to range, water heater, furnace, and clothes dryer. Without LPS I'd have little to no confidence in the gas piping permitted here in TV.
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Just to add, LPS systems do not attract or repel lightning. All they do is provide a safe path to ground for the discharge if you home gets hit vs the lightning running around your house destroying everthing when trying to discharge to ground.
Also as far as lightning rods are concerned, Triangle and A1 will do a grounding test to measure the ground of the lightning rods they install. Make sure you ask for the report. Also the system is bonded to the utility ground And the ground rod that was installed when your house was built. So in my case i'm grounded to 5 ground rods plus the utility ground.