Electrical Review

Under the UK’s new Lightning Protection standard BSEN 62305: 2006 lightning protection means far more than just a Faraday Cage consisting of cross bonded air terminations, down conductors and an earthing system.

Isolated air-termination rods or air termination frameworks help   prevent a direct lightning strike from entering the building.

Designed around BSEN 62305’s requirements for Separated Systems, the DEHNiso product family allows a quick efficient solution to be achieved.

Where separation distance of the down conductor system needs to be maintained the DEHN HVI product range provides the ideal solution.


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Many organisations seeking to lower their carbon footprint are tapping into solar energy using photovoltaic systems, which are highly vulnerable to lightning damage. Ian Langeveld, UK and Ireland sales manager with Wieland Electric, discusses the importance of suitable protection for these systems

As technology has become an integral part of everyday life, measures to protect our devices and the systems that serve them have also increased in importance. Indeed, in some cases, protecting these systems has become critical to the business’s ability to operate. Thus, for example, protection against the damage that can be caused by lightning strikes is now just as important for many businesses as securing their buildings against intruders.

Now, with the growing use of photovoltaic (PV) arrays to harness solar energy there is an additional area to be considered when it comes to protection strategies. And with feed-in tariffs encouraging electricity generation from renewable energy sources this is an area that will continue to grow.