Will relay activate at a close thunderstorm before electronics in the house burns?

Will relay activate at a close thunderstorm before electronics in the house burns?

Lightning protection - is one of the ways to protect property and health from harmful effects of lightning. Therefore, to ensure comprehensive protection, it is necessary to correctly understand its operation principles, as well as principles of interaction with other devices. Our technicians get many interesting questions on this issue

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V Russian conference on lightning protection

V Russian conference on lightning protection

Dear Colleagues,
On 17 -19 May 2016 the V Russian conference on lightning protection will be held in the Ballroom of the hotel "Astoria" in St. Petersburg. This event highlights the research activities on lightning, as well as modern means of protection against the effects of lightning on different objects.
 

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What distance should be between the down conductors according to TCO 336-2011?

What distance should be between the down conductors according to TCO 336-2011?

Dear friends! We continue to share interesting questions from our customers and the responses to them. This time, the question is about the requirements for lightning protection "at what distance according to the document TCO 336-2011 * should down conductors be located, for example, for lightning protection class III?"

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About working hours during the holidays

About working hours during the holidays

About working hours during the holidays

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How to secure the antenna on the tower from lightning strikes?

How to secure the antenna on the tower from lightning strikes?

There are cases in the design and operational practices, where object protection with conventional (rod) lightning rods can cause unacceptable impacts. The adjusting tower can be taken as an example.

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Tips and recommendations on installation in an interview with the ZANDZ Club of Experts!

Tips and recommendations on installation in an interview with the ZANDZ Club of Experts!

Dear readers, we are pleased to bring another interview with one of our Experts of the ZANDZ.com Club to your attention. Do you want to know what difficulties professionals face at the installation? What they use in work and what solutions they implement most frequently? Then this publication is for you.

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How to protect video surveillance system?

How to protect video surveillance system?

CCTV systems play an important role in people's daily life. In this regard, for the uninterrupted operation of the equipment, it is necessary to provide reliable protection against surge voltages, which provide due to lightning strikes and network overloads. LEUTRON has released a new series of SPDs for the protection of video surveillance systems. In our article we will take a closer look at development.

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Why do we need grounding on oil tank trucks and how to make it?

Why do we need grounding on oil tank trucks and how to make it?

Every week we share crucial questions about grounding and lightning protection, the answers to which help designers and installers to solve their problems on such objects as industrial enterprises, residential buildings and single-family houses. But electrical equipment is used not only in stationary facilities, but also in mobile objects, such as special equipment for the transportation of gasoline and petroleum products.

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Do I need grounding for an electric floor?

Do I need grounding for an electric floor?

Innovative products that can make life of modern people more convenient and comfortable are very popular nowadays. One of these innovations in today's homes is an underfloor heating.

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System of data monitoring after a lightning strike

System of data monitoring after a lightning strike

Renewable energy sources - sources of energy which is considered inexhaustible. They are a great alternative to the traditional method of energy production, both on the part of energy independence and for environmental safety.

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New instructions about grounding and lightning protection for a single-family house

New instructions about grounding and lightning protection for a single-family house

The summer season is coming, due to what,  the owners of single-family houses start to think about installation of grounding on their allotments. Installation in winter time is difficult because of the frozen soil, rainfall and low temperatures, that is why, the solutions to protect against electric shock are left until better days.

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Lightning protection and grounding of a container filling station

Lightning protection and grounding of a container filling station

Very often you can find container filling stations on the road (CFS). They may be under roof or under the open air. It is unsafe to be near such a station during a thunderstorm, because at a lightning strike, an explosion will definitely happen! One of our clients set our Technical center a task to secure the station and the staff from such a fate in the village Vostochny. Let's study the solution of this problem in more detail!

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The benefits of studying

The benefits of studying "trigger lightning"

For a long time the question of origin of lightning has been torturing the minds of many researchers. Each of them wondered how would our perception about the lightning change, if we could control the process of the birth of the lightning channel and affect it?

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A new series of webinars on how to save energy!

A new series of webinars on how to save energy!

On May 17 a new series of webinars about economy and improvment of the quality of electricity will begin.

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How to get a 4 ohm in permafrost?

How to get a 4 ohm in permafrost?

The major part of the territory of Russia is located in permafrost regions. Installation of grounding at low temperatures and frozen ground is problematic, and often design of objects in these areas causes difficulties for designers.

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Why lightning protection system is necessary for a

Why lightning protection system is necessary for a "Smart House"?

Lightning, as well as other natural disasters, has a significant impact on people, property, homes and businesses. The popular US site about the real estate RealtyTrac published a report about housing under the name "Natural Disaster Housing Risk Report", which cited statistics that 35.8 million of homes and apartmentsin  the United States are located in areas with high natural hazard risk.

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To help the designer of oil and gas facilities

To help the designer of oil and gas facilities

The geographical location of oil and gas facilities is immense. They are being built throughout the various natural areas, in consequence of that the design of these facilities should take into account many factors: topography, groundwater, weather conditions, etc.

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Unique protection technologies that you didn't know about!

Unique protection technologies that you didn't know about!

Dear friends!
Today is the 1st April, a Friday, which means that it is time to finish all of the things you planned for the week and unwind a little bit. To help you do this, we have compiled a selection of interesting technologies and devices that will be useful for anyone who works with grounding and lightning protection!

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Lightning protection for a mosque!

Lightning protection for a mosque!

A mosque is an important religious structure with high safety requirements. Some are included in the list of protected critical infrastructure.

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How to protect monuments from lightning?

How to protect monuments from lightning?

Lightning protection is important not only for residential housing and industrial facilities, but also for landmark buildings and work of art. Historical objects need protection from the harmful influence of humans, as well as from natural phenomena, including lightning. In this article, we would like to share a description of the lightning protection for the Jesuit mission La Santisima Trinidad de Paraná in Paraguay, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1993. It is a deserted village that was built by the Catholic religious order of Jesuits to convert the American Indians.

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When and why is it necessary to apply repeated grounding?

When and why is it necessary to apply repeated grounding?

When designing power supply system at the site of the consumer, the designers are planning grounding system on default. Grounding system is protection for people against electric shock arising in case of damage of electrical equipment and appliances. There are several variants of their execution, and we got a question from one of our readers about TN-C type of grounding.

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How and why grounding on a ship is made?

How and why grounding on a ship is made?

Installation of grounding on a ship is a prerequisite for ensuring safety of people from the harmful effects of electric current and electromagnetic field. As we know, protective grounding is a structure of non-conductivng metal parts of the electric plant with the ground, or, in our case, its equivalent - metal base of the vessel. Let's find out how grounding on a sea-craft is arranged.

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Do I have to install individual grounding for my bath-house?

Do I have to install individual grounding for my bath-house?

Every owner of his own land parcel faces the question of electrical safety of his structures. Protection is needed not only in a single-family house, but also in other buildings where electrical equipment is used: baths, sheds, etc. Consequently, we face a number of issues. How to ground the object if the house itself is already grounded? Do I need to perform a separate contour for additional structures?

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Please welcome! The long-awaited book about lightning protection!

Please welcome! The long-awaited book about lightning protection!

Dear friends! We are pleased to announce you the long-awaited book about lightning protection, which contains everything you need to study the principles of construction of lightning protection!

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Do not put protection away for later!

Do not put protection away for later!

Most installers consider the cold season unsuitable for outdoor installation and are planning to carry out works in summer. It is logical, because installation of lightning protection and grounding in cold weather is accompanied by a number of inconveniences: stable negative temperatures, large amounts of snow - all this greatly complicates the installation of lightning rods and run of down conductors.

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