XGSLab Lightning
The Ultimate Software for LPS Analysis
Experience powerful, accurate, and versatile evaluation of your lightning protection systems (LPS).
Find The Best Lightning Software For Your Projects
XGSLab Lightning software provides a detailed analysis of your lightning protection system’s (LPS) shielding efficacy and performance in conducting the lightning current. XGSLab Lightning incorporates the industry’s best electromagnetic models (EGM), including the Rolling Sphere Method (RSM) and the Eriksson Method (EM) for LPS shielding evaluations.
XGSLab SHIELD determines where lightning may strike, and the XGSLab Lightning Shielding & EMF Bundle analyzes how your LPS performs. As a global software solution, several standards (IEC/TS, EN, IEEE, NFPA, AS) are achieved with XGSLab Lightning.
Looking for more? Explore XGSLab Grounding software and XGSLab EMF software.
XGSLab Lightning Packages
SHIELD
Powerful 3D lightning shielding evaluation for structures up to 60 m tall.
SHIELD ADVANCED
Advanced electro-geometric 3D lightning shielding for complex and tall structures.
Lightning Shield Bundle
Advanced LPS Shielding evaluation bundled with best-in-class transient lightning analysis.
Quickly Compare XGSLab Lightning Modules
XGSLab Lightning provides multiple modules and bundles to thoroughly evaluate your LPS—regardless of the complexity of the protected structure.
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Lightning Shield & EMF Bundle |
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Electro-Geometric Lightning Shielding, Necessary for Tall Structures >60 m |
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Inductive, Capacitive, and Conductive Coupling |
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Touch & Step Voltages, I2t Calculations |
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Transient Time Domain |
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Quickly Compare XGSLab Lightning Modules
| Includes: | Rolling Sphere & Eriksson Method |
Calculated Surge Impedance and Editable Striking Distance |
| Includes: | Rolling Sphere & Eriksson Method | Calculated Surge Impedance and Editable Striking Distance | Electro-Geometric Lightning Shielding, Necessary for Tall Structures >60 m |
| Includes: | Rolling Sphere & Eriksson Method | Calculated Surge Impedance and Editable Striking Distance | Electro-Geometric Lightning Shielding, Necessary for Tall Structures >60 m | Inductive, Capacitive, and Conductive Coupling | Touch & Step Voltages, I2t Calculations | Transient Time Domain |
XGSLab SHIELD
Tutorial
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Why Choose XGSLab SHIELD
XGSLab SHIELD provides a comprehensive solution for evaluating and designing lightning protection systems.
Watch SHIELD Tutorial ❯
Here’s why you should choose XGSLab SHIELD:
Advanced Analysis Methods: XGSLab SHIELD utilizes the Rolling Sphere Method and Eriksson Method for precise evaluation of lightning protection systems.
3D Graphical Application: Experience a full 3D graphical interface, making it easy to visualize and analyze protection systems of any shape, including masts, horizontal wires, and catenary wires.
Project Versatility: SHIELD is suitable for various essential infrastructure projects, including hospitals, generation facilities, substations, explosive storage facilities, and more.
Standards Compliance: SHIELD complies with IEEE Std 998 and IEC 62305-3 standards, ensuring your lightning protection systems meet industry regulations, such as NFPA 780.
Comprehensive Tools: This software includes surge impedance calculation tools for robust assessment and efficacy of lightning protection systems. Additionally, automated reporting streamlines the documentation process, making it easier to review and share results.
Summary: By choosing XGSLab SHIELD, you ensure accurate, efficient, and industry-compliant evaluation of your lightning protection systems, making it an essential tool for safeguarding critical infrastructure.
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Why Choose XGSLab SHIELD_ADVANCED
XGSLab SHIELD_ADVANCED offers enhanced capabilities for evaluating complex lightning protection systems on challenging structures.
Here’s why you should choose SHIELD_Advanced:
Enhanced Analysis: XGSLab SHIELD_ADVANCED utilizes electro-geometric analysis for more accurate evaluation of complex structures (even analyzing significant protrusions) to validate lightning protection systems.
Heightened Capabilities: This advanced software is designed for structures exceeding 60 meters in height and capable of calculating side strikes.
Broadened Application: Suitable for challenging infrastructure such as airports, towers, and bridges, in addition to standard structures.
Versatile Protection: Incorporates lightning protection systems of any shape, ensuring thorough coverage for diverse infrastructure needs.
Summary: By choosing XGSLab SHIELD_ADVANCED, you gain a powerful tool for detailed and accurate analysis of sophisticated lightning protection systems, especially for tall and complex structures, ensuring superior safety and compliance.
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Why Choose Lightning Shielding & EMF Bundle
Choosing the XGSLab Lightning Shielding & EMF Analysis Bundle provides a comprehensive approach to lightning protection analysis, going beyond the capabilities of XGSLab SHIELD or SHIELD_ADVANCED alone.
Here’s why you should consider the bundle:
In-Depth Operational Analysis: Evaluate the performance of lightning protection systems as each nanosecond of the lightning event can be analyzed to verify desired LPS operation.
Detailed Evaluation: Analyze current paths, impedance, and peak voltages within the lightning protection system, providing a thorough understanding of system behavior under lightning impulses.
Preventative Insights: Identify potential issues such as overvoltage, side-flash, and back-flash, helping to prevent these undesirable effects and ensure system reliability.
Comprehensive Protection: Bundling Shielding & EMF ensures that all aspects of lightning protection are thoroughly evaluated and optimized.
Summary: By choosing the XGSLab Lightning Shielding & EMF Analysis bundle, you gain a detailed and comprehensive toolset for evaluating and enhancing the performance of your lightning protection systems, ensuring maximum safety and effectiveness during lightning events.
Why Choose XGSLab SHIELD
XGSLab SHIELD provides a comprehensive solution for evaluating and designing lightning protection systems.
Watch SHIELD Tutorial ❯
Here’s why you should choose XGSLab SHIELD:
Advanced Analysis Methods: XGSLab SHIELD utilizes the Rolling Sphere Method and Eriksson Method for precise evaluation of lightning protection systems.
3D Graphical Application: Experience a full 3D graphical interface, making it easy to visualize and analyze protection systems of any shape, including masts, horizontal wires, and catenary wires.
Project Versatility: SHIELD is suitable for various essential infrastructure projects, including hospitals, generation facilities, substations, explosive storage facilities, and more.
Standards Compliance: SHIELD complies with IEEE Std 998 and IEC 62305-3 standards, ensuring your lightning protection systems meet industry regulations, such as NFPA 780.
Comprehensive Tools: This software includes surge impedance calculation tools for robust assessment and efficacy of lightning protection systems. Additionally, automated reporting streamlines the documentation process, making it easier to review and share results.
Summary: By choosing XGSLab SHIELD, you ensure accurate, efficient, and industry-compliant evaluation of your lightning protection systems, making it an essential tool for safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Why Choose XGSLab SHIELD_ADVANCED
XGSLab SHIELD_ADVANCED offers enhanced capabilities for evaluating complex lightning protection systems on challenging structures.
Here’s why you should choose SHIELD_Advanced:
Enhanced Analysis: XGSLab SHIELD_ADVANCED utilizes electro-geometric analysis for more accurate evaluation of complex structures (even analyzing significant protrusions) to validate lightning protection systems.
Heightened Capabilities: This advanced software is designed for structures exceeding 60 meters in height and capable of calculating side strikes.
Broadened Application: Suitable for challenging infrastructure such as airports, towers, and bridges, in addition to standard structures.
Versatile Protection: Incorporates lightning protection systems of any shape, ensuring thorough coverage for diverse infrastructure needs.
Summary: By choosing XGSLab SHIELD_ADVANCED, you gain a powerful tool for detailed and accurate analysis of sophisticated lightning protection systems, especially for tall and complex structures, ensuring superior safety and compliance.
Why Choose Lightning Shielding & EMF Bundle
Choosing the XGSLab Lightning Shielding & EMF Analysis Bundle provides a comprehensive approach to lightning protection analysis, going beyond the capabilities of XGSLab SHIELD or SHIELD_ADVANCED alone.
Here’s why you should consider the bundle:
In-Depth Operational Analysis: Evaluate the performance of lightning protection systems as each nanosecond of the lightning event can be analyzed to verify desired LPS operation.
Detailed Evaluation: Analyze current paths, impedance, and peak voltages within the lightning protection system, providing a thorough understanding of system behavior under lightning impulses.
Preventative Insights: Identify potential issues such as overvoltage, side-flash, and back-flash, helping to prevent these undesirable effects and ensure system reliability.
Comprehensive Protection: Bundling Shielding & EMF ensures that all aspects of lightning protection are thoroughly evaluated and optimized.
Summary: By choosing the XGSLab Lightning Shielding & EMF Analysis bundle, you gain a detailed and comprehensive toolset for evaluating and enhancing the performance of your lightning protection systems, ensuring maximum safety and effectiveness during lightning events.
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FAQs
A lightning protection system consists of metallic components designed to intercept the direct strike of lightning on a prospective recipient structure. The purpose of the LPS is to eliminate or reduce the damage that could occur to the protected structure.
Yes, XGSLab can read some CAD files directly or simply import the LPS or structure as a wireframe DXF. With automated report, evaluating a design from CAD tools provides an efficient workflow.
SHIELD and SHIELD ADVANCED are robust and flexible tools to evaluate both bonded and isolated lightning protection systems. Bonded lightning protection systems are built upon the structure they protect while an isolated system is physically separated from the structures they protect. Often isolated LPS are implemented in areas with explosive material, where a lightning event could cause significantly more damage than just the structural damage.
SHIELD and SHIELD ADVANCED provide 3D modeling to verify adequate separation of LPS and structures with measurement tools.
Yes, SHIELD and SHIELD ADVANCED allow complex system designs to be accurately analyzed, including the catenary curve of any shield wires.
GSA_FD and XGSA_FD allow calculation of complex grounding systems’ impedance for multiple frequencies from DC to greater than 10 MHz.
GSA_FD, XGSA_FD, and XGSA_TD modules provide multiple industry approaches for calculating soil’s frequency response improving the accuracy for detailed grounding, earthing, and lightning etc. Studies.
The XGSA_TD module provided in the bundle provides lightning impulse waveforms for the Double Exponential, Pulse, and Heidler impulse characteristics; however, custom samples may be used as the impulse characteristics of the software.
