By looking at the outside of the van you can hardly see any damage at all.
Can lightning affect rubber.
As you correctly state the lightning does bridge the gap between the cloud and you.
Lightning can hit anything but if i have rubber sole shoes on and i m sitting in my car i m good right.
Here are some pictures of a van that had a majority of its insides destroyed by a lightning strike.
But mind it rubber shoes or tyres of your bike scooter won t protect you from lightning because they are not thick enough to bear the amount of electricity that lightning passes.
Lightning is millions tens of millions hundreds of millions of volts.
Remember convertibles motorcycles bicycles open shelled outdoor recreational vehicles and cars with fiberglass shells offer no protection from lightning.
Rubber tires provide zero safety from lightning.
Electricity takes the path of least resistance.
4000 volts to go through 2mm of rubber in gloves.
So you re screwed with rubber gloves.
Rubber is indeed an electrical insulator so many would argue that lightning can t affect it.
I ve been having trouble finding numbers on this but i d estimate about 20kv cm.
While rubber is an electrical insulator lighting is too powerful to be stopped by a few inches of rubber.
The small additional gap between you and the ground the rubber soles won t protect you.
No you are not protected if you are hit directly.
A material like rubber is an insulator and offers more resistance than say a conductor like a metal but that doesn t mean it would prevent the.
That means you d need 20 kilovolts to go through 1cm of rubber.
Contrary to popular belief rubber does not stop lightning.
On occasion the electricity from a lightning strike may pass through the car by way of wires and other conductive surfaces.
When this happens a lot of damage can ensue.
Because the ground current affects a much larger area than the other causes of lightning casualties the ground current causes the most lightning deaths and injuries ground current also kills many farm animals.
In addition ground current can travels in garage floors with conductive materials.
Answered october 23 2018.
Four or five inches of rubber is no insulation whatsoever.
2 megavolts to go through a meter of rubber.
Most cars are safe from lightning but it is the metal roof and metal sides that protect you not the rubber tires.
After all lightning has traveled for miles through the sky.
Rubber tires on a car protect you from lightning by insulating you from the ground.
Bolts from the blue can strike 10 15 miles from the thunderstorm.
It has nothing to do with the rubber tires.
