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Old 07-28-2014, 04:04 PM
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Speaking of guarantees, there might not be any guarantee that an expensive (whole house) lightning rod system will keep your house from catching fire from a massive lightning strike.

Did A-1 Lightning Protection give a guarantee? Not that I expect they would, I'm just asking.
The studies that I have reviewed show that the major reason for failure is simple neglect and failure to follow the maintance criteria in NFPA-780. They don’t take much maintenance as the have no moving parts. Are there are any manmade products that 100% reliable – never have a failure? Every transportation mode has a failure rate as does your appliances, computers and other electronics. Are automatic external deliberators (AED) 100% guaranteed when they are called on in a life & death situation? Yet wee had one fail last summer during a Villages softball game. My point is that anything manmade can fail but you have to agree that they all work a very high percentage of the time well into to the upper ninety percent range including LPS.