Preventing surges in industrial settings

When lightning strikes, its immense electrical charge can cause a surge of high voltage electricity throughout the systems in your home and business, overloading appliances with more voltage than they can cope with and damaging circuits. In industrial settings, surges are not always caused by atmospheric factors such as lightning; it can also be caused by factors such as motor drives and capacitor banks switching.

Although the energy from an industrial surge is lower than that of a lightning strike, this is still something to be avoided whenever possible. When the machinery in an industrial workplace is temporarily or permanently damaged by a surge, it is likely that production will slow down or stop altogether, resulting in loss of profits and productivity and having a negative impact on business. Surges are potentially very expensive as they can cause irreparable damage to electrical appliances and machinery, which will then need to be replaced.

Besides the financial problems, surges can also pose a real danger to people in the property, causing overheating and fires in many cases. In an industrial setting, company directors have a responsibility to keep staff and visitors as safe as possible, and as part of this you may wish to consider having surge protection installed.

We are highly experienced at installing surge protection in a wide variety of domestic, commercial and industrial settings and will always provide the most suitable solution for your specific needs. Every building will have a different risk of electrical surges, which means a tailor made system is required to provide you with the most effective protection. This is what we can offer for you.

Besides surge protection, we can also provide comprehensive lightning protection systems to defend your property from the danger of atmospheric surges. All our installations adhere to the Electricity at Work Regulation and the BS EN 62305:2011 Protection Against Lightning standard, so you can rest assured that you will be complying with the required standards when you choose to have us carry out your installation.