Lightning rod and conductor
A lightning protection system: a pointed copper air terminal on a steel ground mast or a brick chimney stack, a copper down conductor and an earth plate.
- Kind
- Model
- Version
- 1.0.1
- Added
- 23 October 2026New
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mount | choice | mast | mast, chimney | a free-standing steel ground mast, or a brick chimney stack on a small outbuilding with roof flashing |
| height | number | 12 | 6 to 20 m | the mast's height to its top (used by the mast mount) |
| stackHeight | number | 1.4 | 0.6 to 2.5 m | how far the chimney stack rises above the roof ridge (chimney mount) |
| rodLength | number | 1 | 0.3 to 2 m | the pointed copper air terminal's length above its mount |
| pots | integer | 2 | 0 to 3 | clay chimney pots on the stack (chimney mount) |
| groundRun | number | 2.5 | 1 to 6 m | how far the down conductor runs along the ground to its earth plate |
| age | number | 0.3 | 0 to 1 | how weathered the copper is: 0 bright copper, 1 green verdigris |
| copper | color | #b8703f | – | new copper: the rod, down conductor and earth plate |
| patina | color | #6aa595 | – | the verdigris the copper weathers to |
| steel | color | #9ba2a7 | – | the galvanised steel mast, conductor clips and the lead-grey flashing |
| concrete | color | #a9a7a0 | – | the concrete footing, chimney cap and test chamber |
| brick | color | #a65b43 | – | the chimney stack's brick; a channel's seed turns the hue |
| walls | color | #d6cfbd | – | the outbuilding's rendered walls |
| roof | color | #5b4b48 | – | the outbuilding's roof |
| pot | color | #b4673f | – | the clay chimney pots |
Use it in a film
film.js
world: { props: { prop: { model: 'lightning-rod', at: [6, -4] } } }Use it from your agent
Ask your agent to put it in a film. It finds the element by name.