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Telecom Grounding Systems — Part II

Telecom Grounding Systems: The Importance of the Motorola R56 Specifications (Part II) In Part two of our telecom grounding system series per the Motorola R56 Standard, we will deal with a few concepts. First, we’ll look [...]

How to use SPDs in the Solar Power Generation Industry

It's widely reported that the solar industry has the resource potential to meet the global electrical power demands of every nation throughout the world. During 2015, solar beat out natural gas capacity additions with solar supplying 29.5% of all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. for the first time.

Protect Solar Farms from Lightning Strikes

Solar farms are just big fields covered with conductive material. They’re almost asking for a lightning strike, which can damage or destroy solar panels, inverters, and other critical equipment. So it’s no surprise that lightning activity and surge-related over-voltage [...]

Lightning Strike Threats on Solar Arrays

ALLTEC's engineering manager Jim Grasty discusses the threat of lightning strikes on solar arrays and the surprising state of lightning protection at solar farms. Direct and indirect lightning strikes damage on solar arrays can vary from explosive destruction to [...]

ALLTEC appears in Wade4Wireless July Podcast

Now, who is ALLTEC? That is the company that can give you end to end solutions for not only lightning protection, but surge protection in general. It’s not just about the big surges, it is about the breakdown of equipment over time.

Lightning Protection and Grounding System Evaluation For Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) Storage

There has been a rapidly growing trend for petroleum, water/wastewater and chemical industries to utilize Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) storage tanks. FRP storage tanks are typical for these industries due to their non-corrosive properties as compared to standard metal [...]

Traffic Control Applications

ALLTEC Solutions for Traffic Control Applications Traffic control sites often experience damage to electronic systems during thunderstorm activity. Various approaches towards external and internal grounding and surge protection are usually experimented with at one time or another [...]

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