Have you ever woken up to discover that your expensive equipment, computers and machinery have gone up in smoke, or worse still, your premises caught fire during last night’s violent thunderstorm?
Well now you don’t need to worry nearly as much about this scenario, thanks to Surgetek Technologies surge protector, a device designed to safeguard households and businesses from the damaging lightning power surges associated with thunderstorms.
The benefits offered by the surge protector, include:
- Reduction of up to 90% in damages
- Significant reduction in claims
- Maintenance of normal operations despite power surges
- Diversion of electrical surges to earth
- Effective protection for up to a decade
- Coloured flag indicators which reflect the operational status of the device
- Easy exchanging of defective protection modules – no rewiring necessary if module is defective or damaged
- Generally only a single device needed per premises.
When lightning strikes, it creates an electromagnetic field that’s responsible for the majority of lightning damage (apart from a direct strike). The surge protector, which is fitted to the main distribution board (DB), can withstand up to 40kA (kilo amps). It’s rare for lightning experienced in South Africa to exceed 40kA, and any voltage in excess of 1 000 volts is diverted away from the premises to earth, thereby preventing damage to appliances, which are designed to withstand up to 1 500 volts, or to fixed installation equipment with a tolerance limit of 2 500 volts.
Find more information on surge protection, see http://www.surgetek.co.za alternatively contact Dev Naidoo from Surgetek on 079 524 2691 or dev@surgetek.co.za