electrostatics

Warning: Electrostatic Discharge Damage in Highline Systems Reports of electrostatic discharges have been reported from all around the world, resulting in damage and full highline system failures. The new report summarizes incidents and their communalities and makes recommendations for highliners in preventing such incidents. Key Takeaways: The damage from electrostatic discharges in highlines could easily lead to deadly accidents, which fortunately have not happened until today, let's keep it this way. The highlines analysed did not get damaged or fail due to lightning, but due to electric discharges (plasma lightning-arcs), happening in almost all cases underneath tapes [...]