AVCOM Wireless is partnered with Alltec Lightning and Grounding Protection system
Safeguard valuable assets, defend critical electronics, and protect homes and businesses using the Alltec Protection Pyramid. The Alltec Protection Pyramid uses Alltec’s proven products and services for surge, Lightning and Grounding protection to provide complete facility protection. Alltec Corporation has reinvented the way that companies and homeowners protect themselves from harmful transients and atmospheric phenomena, such as lightning strikes with Lightning and Grounding Protection.
Lightning and Grounding Protection Pyramid
The Alltec Protection Pyramid is a three-tier system. Each level represents a method utilized to protect facilities from damages caused by harmful electrical currents. Rather than treating these tiers as independent, Alltec regards each layer as interlocking components. When all three tiers are designed, installed, and maintained together as a total system; comprehensive facility protection can be achieved.
The foundation tier of Alltec’s Protection Pyramid begins with the design, installation, and maintenance of a code-compliant, single-point, low impedance/low resistance grounding system. Upon this foundation, surge protection devices are staged to dramatically filter voltage, current, and frequency surges. Lastly, a well-designed lightning protection system is created to protect against direct lightning strikes.
The base of the Alltec Protection Pyramid begins with the installation of a stable, low resistance and low impedance grounding system to bond all electrically conductive surfaces together. Harmful electrical currents are safely redirected to earth and away from power lines, telephone lines, or data equipment. Alltec Corporation has specially designed the following products to lay a solid foundation for tier one of the Alltec Protection Pyramid.
Lightning and Grounding Protection
Finally, a well-designed, customized lightning protection system will be installed to safeguard facilities from direct lightning strikes. Traditional lightning protection methods as well as some of the most advanced technologies are available from Alltec Corporation.
Lightning and Grounding parts and materials
Provides efficient electrical grounding with continuous low resistance/low impedance.
- UL & cUL listed, corrosion-resistant, maintenance-free 30-year service warranty
- Rated for high fault currents
- Replaces multiple conventional rods
- Vertical and Horizontal models are available
- Produces effective, stable, year-round ground reference
Incorporates electrodes that break down into coronas before streamers can form, thereby lowering accumulated charge and mitigating streamer generation.
Patented Technology
- Utilizes the Point-Discharge Principle to reduce direct lightning strikes
- UL listed and recommended as per API2003
- Lightweight, corrosion, and high wind resistant
The preferred protection method for large area structures and open spaces.
- Certified to UNE 21 186 and NF C 17-102
- Designed and constructed as a single unit with latest advanced electronic circuitry
- Stainless steel encased, suitable for corrosive atmospheres
- Withstands electrical discharge current of 100kA
- Protection zone up to a 357 ft. (109 m) radius
- Five year replacement warranty
Provides a simple method to economically tackle difficult grounding situations.
- Resistivity <1Ω/cm; freezing increases resistance less than 10%
- Will not expand, shrink, dissolve, or decay; contains a corrosion inhibitor
- Environmentally friendly
- Self-compacting, easy to install
- Does not require mixing with water
- Motorola R56 compliant
Provides simple, cost-effective, permanent connections using a high-temperature exothermic reaction.
- Requires no external heat source, portable
- Fault-tolerant, highly conductive, corrosion-resistant, will not loosen
- UL listed
Consists of an array of styles and configurations, also, made to specifications.
- UL listed
- Convenient, single point bonding location, creates an equipotential bond between system and equipment grounds
- Available in plated versions for use in corrosive environments
Building upon the grounding tier, Alltec’s second tier of protection comes from properly installed surge protection devices, which reduces and/or eliminates the magnitude of random, high energy, short-duration electrical power anomalies. These occurrences are typically caused by atmospheric phenomena (lightning strikes), utility switching, inductive loads, and internally generated transient voltages. The Alltec Protection Pyramid relies on PowerTrip surge suppression devices to meet the demands required for tier two protections.
PowerTrip surge suppression devices Incorporate Voltage and Frequency Responsive Circuitry Technology years ahead of any other devices on the market today. Utilizing proprietary electro-chemical encapsulation, PowerTrip surge protective devices (SPD) dissipate large amounts of surge energy to prolong service life.
- Discrete “All Mode” circuitry and industry-leading Let-Through voltage performance
- 25-year free replacement warranty
- Response/recovery time < 1 nanosecond
- Tight nominal clamping levels, and EMI/RFI filters
- UL listed 1449 and 1283
