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2. Reflection of excess charge back into a site grounding system is prevented.
3. Able to remain resilient and durable through multiple massive surge events.
4. Notably reduces noise on inbound electric service and prevents entry of surge events into essential facilities.
5. No regular maintenance is necessary.
Additionally, empirical evidence is showing the initiation of lightning events (known as leader formation) on structures is dramatically reduced. With respect to lightning…..No leader formation = no strike = no damage.
GroundLinx® H-ELP™ solutions are different from all other methods of traditional grounding, and lightning protection for these key reasons:
Because electronic devices are so easily damaged by electrical anomalies such as voltage transients, surges, spikes, and high frequency pulses, GroundLinx® has developed H-ELP™ -- our High-performance Electronics Loss Prevention suite of solutions. Using massively dissipative earth electrodes as the core of H-ELP™ installations, in combination with unique, custom system designs, GroundLinx® H-ELP™ solutions effectively create “superhighways” for dangerous fault currents to follow….AWAY from mission-critical devices, then harmlessly mitigated -- regardless of energy level, frequency (in excess of 250MHz), voltage, or amperage. Furthermore, H-ELP™ strategies are tailored to prevent intrusion of damaging pulses into essential facilities on any type of inbound utility line, whether on a phase (load) conductor, communications / data lines, and even electric service neutral conductors. Traditional grounding and lightning protection systems, including surge suppression strategies, have distinct and significant limitations in these regards.
groundlinx h-elp™: A revolutionary improvement in lightning protection for electronics.
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WITH THE ABOVE FEATURES IN PLACE, FAULT CURRENTS ARE EFFECTIVELY PREVENTED FROM COMING INTO CLOSE PROXIMITY WITH YOUR VALUABLE AND SENSITIVE ELECTRONICS.
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Regrettably, conventional protection methods, such as ground rods and their related counterparts like chemically-enhanced rods, or copper plates, possess significant limitations when it comes to effectively dissipating HEHF lightning-grade surges and spikes. These fault currents are the hunter-killer charges that wreak havoc on electronics. To compound matters, HEHF incidents occur precisely when a fault takes place, whether it directly impacts a protected structure or is transmitted to a facility through commercial electric or other utility services. Traditional protection systems, unable to adequately manage such faults because of their physical limitations, inadvertently redirect the charge upstream and back into the grounding system. Consequently, electronics that have now been commonly grounded as per code requirements find themselves directly exposed to destructive energy flows, completely without the presumed protection provided by ground rods or possible surge suppression devices (SSDs) that may have been installed as reflected current bypasses SSDs.
Electronic devices, ranging from computers to transmitters and virtually everything in between, are highly discriminating when it comes to their electrical diet.
Traditional grounding techniques have their origins in systems developed for structural fire protection and the balancing of early electrical networks for personnel safety and analog device protection. Surprisingly, over the last 90 years, there has been a notable absence of significant advancements in anomaly dissipation hardware. The last substantial patent for grounding hardware was issued in 1943. Even today, the tried-and-true method for traditional structural grounding predominantly relies on ground rods or similar devices.
During the 1980s and 1990s, as codes and standards were revised to address the specific requirements of electronic devices then coming to market, modifications made were limited to two changes: the increase in the number of required ground rods at a site and the implementation of a common connection for bonding electronic devices to the building’s structural grounding.
Traditional lightning protection and electrical grounding was designed for fire prevention and personnel safety, not electronics loss prevention.
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Protecting the electronic devices that run the most critical aspects of our lives from lightning and surge-related failures is now easily and economically possible. With the GroundLinx® H-ELP™ suite of products and designs prevention of losses to critical electronics at emergency dispatch operations (E-911), hospitals, air traffic control operations, broadcasters, oil and gas producers, electric utilities, and data centers can now be prevented. Operators of these facilities can be assured that their essential electronics and infrastructure services are protected — and face far less risk than with obsolete traditional structural grounding techniques.
In Conclusion...
An infinitesimally short burst of excess energy can disable or destroy electronic devices of any size or complexity.
This immediate disposal capability ensures that damage is prevented instantly. Whether it’s your data centers, transmitters, pump controllers, or security systems - any electronic equipment with a vital role remains completely unaffected, without the slightest interruption of function or service.
The well-documented massive rise in insurance claims made with respect to losses of electronic devices over the past two decades shows that despite its widespread use, traditional lightning protection and grounding is simply not up to the task of preventing losses of hundreds of millions of dollars of electronics -- which are the backbone of today’s electronics-driven world.
GroundLinx H-ELP™ solutions establish an exceptionally high-capacity “off-ramp” that enables fault currents, regardless of their source or frequency, to dissipate and be fully eliminated well before they enter your facilities.
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