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8 FURSE® EARTHING LIGHTNING PROTECTION
QUALIT SOLUTIONS FOR SAFEGUARDING PEOPLE, STRUCTURES AND SERVICES
In the vast majority countries, this need for
earthing clearly stipulated through health and
safety regulations, with implementation driven by
approved standards.
A good quality earthing system designed to:
• Prevent risk life, removing the risk of
electric shock
• Protect connected electrical and electronic
equipment from damage due the passage
of fault, earth leakage lightning currents
• Provide low impedance path earth, to
ensure effective operation overcurrent
protective devices the event fault
• Ensure connected equipment remains the
same electrical potential
• Remove risk overheating conductors
under fault conditions there risk of
insulation breakdown
• Ensure people near substations are not
at risk from step, touch transfer potentials
It essential for safety and business continuity.
Designed earthing systems utilise our high
quality copper earthing tapes, our earth rods,
backfills, mechanical clamps and FurseWELD®
exothermic welding system, ensure safe and
long term earthing installation.
Earthing design
Power earthing design, especially for high
voltage installations such substations, a
complex process requiring assessment and
understanding local soil conditions, existing
overhead/underground conductors and
metalwork, and prospective earth fault current
duration and magnitude the installation.—
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copperbond earth rods.
These standards cover wide range situations,
including earthing and equipotential bonding of:
• Lightning protection systems
• Low voltage electrical systems
• Telecommunications systems
• High voltage electrical systems (over kVac)
Earthing essentially the connection the
electrical system and connected electrical
equipment, well the structural lightning
protection system (where installed), to
the general mass earth using suitably
sized conductor.
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Equipotential bonding the interconnection
of all metalwork structure ensure, the
event current passing earth, there no
risk arcing electric shock hazard.
Poor quality earthing not only risks damage and
downtime equipment, but also the risk of
electrocution and loss life.
Our technical team provides consultancy such
projects and undertakes high voltage earthing
design using CDEGS software.
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Introduction
Earthing
Earthing the lightning protection system, well the electrical installation,
is paramount for safety, protect life, electrical equipment and critical
electronics from electrical system faults and lightning currents
