Lightning Surge Protection Devices Is The Best Defence Against Lightning

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With every upgrade in technology, sensitive systems like dynamic positioning, drilling instrumentation and control, and other rig management systems essential to staying online are becoming more vulnerable. From the standpoint of electronics, the secondary effects of lightning — earth current transients and atmospheric transients, ground potential rise, and electromagnetic pulse — are a greater problem than the direct lightning strike. In some cases, the damage caused by lightning may not show up immediately after a storm but sometime later.

What is surge?

Cloud-to-ground lightning bolts are a common phenomenon—about 100 strike Earth's surface every single second—yet their power is extraordinary. Each bolt can contain up to one billion volts of electricity. Peak current intensity is of the order of 10 to 100 million volts of electricity, with an average of about 30,000 amps. Energy goes into light and heat with temperatures about 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, six times hotter than the sun. When this power surge comes in contact with power lines, facilities, the earth, or other assets, tremendous damage may occur.

A Lightning surge protection device is an appliance or device designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes. An SPD attempts to limit the voltage supplied to an electric device by either blocking or shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold.

The terms lightning surge protection device (SPD) and transient voltage surge suppressor (TVSS) are used to describe electrical devices typically installed in power distribution panels, process control systems, communications systems, and other heavy-duty industrial systems for the purpose of protecting against electrical surges and spikes, caused by lightning.

LEC provides an entire product line of lightning surge protection devices. Facility Guard provides UL-listed lightning surge protection for industrial service entrance and subpanel applications. The UL-listed Transient Limiters provide up to 100,000 voltage amps and lightning surge protection per phase. The DC Surge Protector provides protection for all DC applications to ensure maximum lightning safety. Other products provide similar lightning surge protection for Data Lines, Telcom, Coax, and Control Lines.

Our lightning surge protection devices have excellent designs that offer more outlets at comparable prices. They offer peace of mind to everyone concerned about sudden power spikes that could hamper their business and destroy expensive electronics.

This is one of the best investments against unlikely events like a lightning strike. Take action now!

Location: Boulder, CO, USA

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