Surge protectors, as an important protective device, play a crucial role in protecting equipment from surge currents. When choosing a surge protector, an important parameter is the Up value. So, do you really understand the Up value of a surge protector? Up: voltage protection level parameter that characterizes the performance of the SPD in limiting [...]
The grounding of lightning protection devices to prevent lightning overvoltage is usually referred to as lightning protection grounding. Lightning protection devices must have good grounding in order to effectively limit atmospheric overvoltage and scattered lightning currents. Below, the editor will popularize lightning protection and grounding knowledge for you, hoping to be helpful to you! Lightning [...]
Energy storage systems play a vital role in modern electricity grids, enabling the integration of renewable energy sources, improving grid stability, and providing backup power during outages. However, these systems are vulnerable to damage from power surges, which can occur due to lightning strikes, switching operations, or grid disturbances. Surge protection is essential for ensuring [...]
Surge protective devices (SPDs)are required to be tested under impulse discharge currents mainly with waveforms of 8/20 ms and 10/350 ms. However, with the improvement of SPD products, the performance and withstand capability of SPDs under such standard test currents need more investigation. In order to investigate and compare the withstand capability of SPDs under [...]
Lightning Protection Zone (LPZ) In IEC standard, terms like type 1/2/3 or class 1/2/3 surge protective device is very popular. In this article, we are going to introduce a concept that is highly related to the previous terms: lightning protection zone or LPZ. What is lightning protection zone and why does it matters? The lightning [...]
As we know, surge protective device will degrade or even come to end of life over time due to repeated small surges, a single strong surge or sustained overvoltage. And when surge protective device fails, it may create a short circuit condition and cause safety problem in the power system. Thus proper overcurrent protection device [...]
The Impact of Cable Length on the Protection Level of Surge Protective Device The subject of SPD installation is rarely mentioned in our discussions. There are two reason: The installation of surge protective device should be conducted by an qualified electrician. We don't want to mislead that this should be done by users. And if [...]
SPD Application in High Altitude Areas As an international player in surge protection filed, Prosurge has a very extensive clientele around the world. For example, we have many customers in the South America where is very famous for its plateau. Sometimes, we have customers asked us: We need to install the surge protection device in [...]
Whole House Surge Protection / Whole Home Surge Protection Today, the concept of whole house surge protection or whole home surge protection is becoming more and more popular. One of the important reasons is that today there are too many electronic devices that are very expensive yet very vulnerable to power surges. It is [...]
We all know that it is not so easy to choose a proper surge protection device. The parameter of a surge protective device is not like the parameter of a smartphone which is obvious and easy to understand for most people. There are a lot a misunderstandings when selecting a SPD. One of the common [...]
