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    ERICO-Six Point Protection Plan For Lightning, Surge Protection and Earthing

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    The document outlines a six point protection plan for minimizing damage from lightning and overvoltage transients at telecommunications installations. The plan includes installing air terminals to capture lightning strikes, downconductors to safely conduct strikes to ground, low impedance grounding to dissipate energy, an equipotential grounding plane to eliminate loops, surge protection on power lines, and surge protection on communications lines. Damage from lightning and surges costs over $1.2 billion annually in the US alone. Following the comprehensive six point plan can help reduce exposure to damage.

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    The document outlines a six point protection plan for minimizing damage from lightning and overvoltage transients at telecommunications installations. The plan includes installing air terminals to capture lightning strikes, downconductors to safely conduct strikes to ground, low impedance grounding to dissipate energy, an equipotential grounding plane to eliminate loops, surge protection on power lines, and surge protection on communications lines. Damage from lightning and surges costs over $1.2 billion annually in the US alone. Following the comprehensive six point plan can help reduce exposure to damage.

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    The document outlines a six point protection plan for minimizing damage from lightning and overvoltage transients at telecommunications installations. The plan includes installing air terminals to capture lightning strikes, downconductors to safely conduct strikes to ground, low impedance grounding to dissipate energy, an equipotential grounding plane to eliminate loops, surge protection on power lines, and surge protection on communications lines. Damage from lightning and surges costs over $1.2 billion annually in the US alone. Following the comprehensive six point plan can help reduce exposure to damage.

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    ERICO-Six Point Protection Plan For Lightning, Surge Protection and Earthing

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    The document outlines a six point protection plan for minimizing damage from lightning and overvoltage transients at telecommunications installations. The plan includes installing air terminals to capture lightning strikes, downconductors to safely conduct strikes to ground, low impedance grounding to dissipate energy, an equipotential grounding plane to eliminate loops, surge protection on power lines, and surge protection on communications lines. Damage from lightning and surges costs over $1.2 billion annually in the US alone. Following the comprehensive six point plan can help reduce exposure to damage.

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    The six point protection plan for lightning, surge protection and earthing

    by JR Gumley, Erico Technologies

    Lightning and overcurrent/overvoltage transients cause millions of dollars damage internationally to cellular radio and telecommunications installations each year. Whilst there is no single technology that can prevent damage, a Six Point Protection Plan is the best check list to cover all damage mechanisms. The plan takes account of surge protection devices (SPDs) and their placement according to the type of power distribution used by the facility. Damage to equipment in the US alone was estimated at US$1,2 billion annually, before including the loss of productivity from industrial and business downtime. In this article, we consider as an example then, a typical telecommunications installation. High energy overvoltage transients may be derived from direct lightning strikes to antenna towers or they may be conducted on power and telephone cables entering buildings and facilities. Induced transient overvoltages may also originate from near strikes due to capacitive or inductive coupling. peak currents can exceed 200 kA with 10/350 s waveshape (SABS IEC 61024-1) current rise times vary between 0.1 - 100 s rnultipulse surges are experienced in over 70% of direct strike situations. This is a naturally occurring phenomenon where up to 20 restrikes may follow the path of the main discharge at intervals of 10-200 ms continuing currents of 200 - 500 A lasting 1-2 seconds may also occur

    Telecommunications radio sites are particularly vulnerable to lightning and transients as they are sited in elevated locations for the best radio signal propagation. This means the towers are often located on mountain tops and on the top of tall buildings - where lightning is looking for the easiest path to ground! In addition to lightning surges, isolated stations at the end of long distribution lines are also prone to suffer equipment damage due to temporary overvoltages caused by switching surges or poor power supply regulation. There is no single technology that can eliminate the risk of lightning and its transients. A holistic systems approach is required. From over 20 years' experience in examining the nature and extent of damage created by lightning transients, Erico Lightning Technologies has developed a comprehensive Six Point Plan to minimise exposure to damage.

    The Six Point Plan recommends: capture the direct lightning strike at a preferred point on purpose-designed air terminals conduct the lightning current to earth safely via a purpose-designed downconductor system to minimise the dangers of side-flashing dissipate the energy into the earth with minimal rise in ground potential through a low impedance grounding system eliminate earth loops and differentials by creating an equipotential grounding plane under transient conditions protect equipment from surges and transients on power lines protect equipment from surges and transients on communications and signal lines to prevent equipment damage and costly operational downtime

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