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 [...]
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 [...]
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 can occur during most storms, which means lightning is a threat everywhere. When it occurs, it can cause significant damage to your business operations, valuable assets, and critical electronics. Knowing proper lightning protection practices is ALLTEC’s expertise.
At any moment there are almost two thousand thunderstorms in progress around the world. As a result the atmosphere endures around 100 lightning strikes per second, or about 8,640,000 times each day.
Metal Architecture Publishes ALLTEC Article on Lightning Protection Systems for Military Metal Shelters. Whether the metal structure is at an oil/gas/petrochemical facility with attendant hazardous environment or a mission-critical military installation, electronics, and personnel considerations demand overall [...]
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 [...]
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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