Tips to protect your equipment from Lightning surge.
This is my personal opinion getting from basic information to protect equipment from lightning surge.
Home /Concept /Water AnalogyWater Analogy：Illustrates behavior of surge current and feature of SPD using waterways and water gate.
You can imagine how SPD works to protect equipment by these illustration.
Decrease voltage diffenrece
Analogy for surge current coming to power lines.
Pressure in route
Pressure to equipment
The gate opens
Analogy in case of hihg earth potential
Pressure in route
Pressure to equipment
The gate opens
SPD works like a water gates in waterways. Gates open if water pressure becomes high level.
Surge current due to direct strike and induce current from othre lines.
Direct lightning surge current
Induced surge current
Illustration at left side shows the image that sugre current directly comes in route and right side shows the image that induced current.
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