Grounding and lightning protection library

This section of ZANDZ.com contains a lot of useful information about grounding and lightning protection: terms and definitions, useful articles, manuals, and advice on the selection and installation of components. 
The section will be useful for both novice and experienced electricians or builders.

Grounding. What is it and how to make it.

Perhaps the best article about grounding that answers the most important questions about the selection and calculation of grounding. 
Please go to a separate page. to read about existing grounding standards and modern ground electrode systems.
 

Surge protection device selection rules

Complete instructions on the selection of class I, II and III surge volatage protectors in low-voltage network using LEUTRON devices as an example. The instructions describe standard solutions for multistage surge protection systems. Please to a separate page to view details.

Book: "The practical aspects of lightning protection"

The book summarizes the notions of lightning protection mechanisms and its parameters necessary to design a lightning protection system. The book is useful for students and postgraduates specializing in the theory and practice of modern lightning protection.
Link to the full article.

Grounding and lightning protection videos

This section contains the following:

• videos from grounding and lightning protection webinars;
• design tips and tricks;
• installation instructions;
• installation examples;
• other useful videos.

Watch all grounding and lightning protection videos in our playlist

• Grounding in permafrost
• Electrostatic painting equipment grounding
• Dissipation Array System technology
• Power transmission line pole grounding
• Wind load on lightning protection rods
• Antennas grounding and lightning protection
• Grounding for APCS
• TN-S, TN-C, TNC-S, TT, IT grounding systems
• Types of air terminals: mast, catenary wire and mesh cage
• IT grounding system Implementation options in residential buildings
• Equipotential bonding in SCS
• Information system grounding
• Medical equipment grounding
• Soil resistance and grounding
• Lightning protection of churches and temples
• Grounding and lightning protection of solar power systems (photovoltaic systems)

• What is neutral grounding?
• Copper-bonded steel and grounding
• Electrical safety in the "smart home"
• Processes during the exothermic welding
• Grounding of railway infrastructure facilities
• The reliability and efficiency of dissipation array device
• Equipotential bonding system
• What is lightning protection?
• Wooden house lightning protection
• Low voltage network (poe / ethernet) lightning protection
• Lightning protection and grounding gasoline filling station

Grounding in a single family house

Instructions for the grounding of a single-family house based on off-the-shelf ZANDZ solution. 
The instructions describe the benefits of 
ZZ-6 grounding kit, and contain its comparison with angle bar-based ground electrode system. How to carry out simple and cost-efficient installation in a cottage /  private house: read our instructions.

Single-family house lightning protection

The page provides guidance on the installation of lightning protection for private homes / cottages, as well as an example based on GALMAR and ZANDZ products.
Why lightning protection is needed and how to make correctly: please go to a separate page.
 

Grounding for lightning protection

What are the requirements for lightning protection and what is the difference between working grounding and grounding included in the lightning protection system: please go to a separate page.

Surge protection of single-family houses

Full instructions on the installation of reliable surge protection of a single-family house / cottage. The manual provides guidance for facilities with different types of power supply.
Please go to a separate page to view details

Gas boiler / gas pipeline grounding

Did you know that tougher requirements are placed towards the number of ground electrodes and grounding resistance when installing gas pipeline or boiler grounding? Please go to a separate page to view details

Instructions: grounding and lightning protection for a single-family house

Full instructions, calculations and specifications for the installation of grounding and lightning protection in single-family houses, cottages or villas.
Please go to a separate page to view details.
 

Terms and definitions

Basic information for those who decided to install grounding:

• Grounding loop
• Ground electrode system
• Soil resistivity
• Ground resistance
• Utilization ratio
   

FAQ

Detailed answers to frequently asked questions on grounding and lightning protection:

• Grounding in rocky soil
• Copper-bonded ground electrode systems
• Ground electrode depth
• Ground conductor penetration
• Grounding in a garage (power grid in the garage)
• Vertical ground electrode system and its diameter
• Distance from grounding to the gas pipeline
• Grounding or progress?

Lightning protection for beginners

A series of articles about the lightning protection of surface facilities against direct lightning strikes and their secondary effects! Please go to a separate page to read answers to the key questions:

• Is it feasible to make lightning protection?
• Lightning strike as viewed by a firefighter
• Should we be afraid of lightning?
• After a lightning strikes into the earth
• Is lightning protection reliable?
• Why are down conductors necessary?