Lightning Surge Protection Devices Improve the Operating Effectiveness of a Facility

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 In today’s electronic world, electrical systems in every industry aren’t complete unless they incorporate surge protection devices. They dramatically improve the total operating efficiency and reliability of the electrical system.

A surge protector is a device to protect electrical equipment from voltage spikes that may occur from lightning, power outage, short circuits, and many other natural occurrences. Power surges cause a great amount of heat to run along electrical wiring and cause the wire to burn because more voltage than the wire was designed to hold is being forced into it.

A lightning surge protection devices functions in three ways:

  • It prevents voltage spikes from stressing electrical equipment
  • It ensures that the surge current flows away from the equipment
  • It prevents secondary induced voltage from damaging the equipment

Through common knowledge, there are two approaches to solve all your surge problems; even the ones occurring due to a lightning strike.

  • To provide lightning surge protection devices only at the service entrance
  • To provide point-of-use protection with individual surge protection devices at critical equipment

While the statements above are true, at Lightning Eliminators & Consultant Inc., we include a third approach. For complete protection we install lightning protection system, combining the SPDs at the entrance and on the equipment. Additionally, we address the grounding practices throughout the facility – starting with the entrance neutral to ground bond. 

Qualities of lightning surge protection devices by LEC

  • They are able to identify failures and activate alarms
  • They can filter EMI/RFI
  • Protect equipment from overload
  • They meet the national and international standards
  • Resetting is not required

Deployed with the latest state-of-the-art technology all our devices are specially designed with a high surge capacity to suit even the most lightning prone regions of the world.

It is used as both a complete device or as an integral part of a lightning protection system.

Patented SPDs of Lightning Eliminators include:

  • Facility guard
  • Transient Limiters (TLX100 & TLX50)
  • DC surge protector (TLX 50-DC)
  • Hybrid Surge Protectors for Data and Telecom application (TE500)
  • Data line protector (DLP)
  • Coaxial Line Protector (CLP)

Browse through our website to gain more information. 


Location: Colorado, USA

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