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GroundLinx® Gradiance® electrodes, when deployed with our H-ELP™ system design solutions create a superhighway for unwanted electrical anomalies to take – well before causing trouble for sensitive equipment. In addition, we strongly augment the safety features of surge suppression devices and UPS units, thus allowing them to do their jobs even better. The trick is building the highway with sufficient capacity both to carry the “traffic” and to allow it to seamlessly – and instantly – exit. With literally millions of “off ramps” in everyone of our electrodes (as opposed to the single exit point in a ground rod), dissipation becomes amazingly efficient and complete. The superiority of GroundLinx® systems in this regard is very easy to demonstrate.
Starting with understanding what really happens during a lightning strike or a possibly lightning-induced major electrical anomaly, then building a knowledge base on the characteristics of pulse and surge events, including the frequencies (and AC behavior) contained therein, GroundLinx® has created a truly significant leap forward from existing surge and lightning protection strategies. Notably, these existing methods haven’t changed to any degree in over 50 years – well before the development of modern electronics. As such, the
magnitude of the GroundLinx® breakthrough truly cannot be overstated.
In spite of this, however, the legacy methods available for creating such protection are at least 50 years behind the times….and this is the leading cause behind ever-increasing losses of these important assets. Therefore, totally rethinking how we approach electronics damage prevention across the board is now an absolute requirement.
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Our fourth-generation Model 0712 is specifically designed for ease of installation regardless of site conditions, yet still incredibly resilient with respect to complete dissipation of both HEHF currents, and lower frequency pulses.
Requiring only roughly 22 inches (56 cm) of depth below grade for installation, the Model0712, which we also refer to as a PUP™ electrode, creates literally millions of discrete pathways for electric charge of any nature to be dissipated, and can do this instantaneously. By comparison, traditional rod-based grounding methods have one path for dissipation and are limited to lower frequencies and suffer from extremely high impedance mismatching between rods and surrounding soils, thus dramatically constraining their effectiveness.
Subsurface rock, which can require a severely-capacity-limiting horizontal installation of traditional grounding, is rarely, if ever, an issue with PUP™ electrodes. And because these devices are not dependent on soil moisture content to create an impedance minimizing “bridge” for dissipation, their performance is not significantly impacted by soil moisture levels.
These features yield unmatched flexibility in designing electronics loss preventionsolutions for any need…..from residential applications to space-constrained transmitter sites to giant data centers. Additionally, PUP™ electrodes are amazingly capable of reducing noise issues at broadcast facilities of any type.
Packaged as complete units, Model 0712 / PUP™ electrodes are shipped with all necessary materials for installation other than the connection cable (which must be of at least AWG 2/0-gauge, stranded copper or tinned copper). In combination with our supplied impedance-mismatch-minimizing backfill material SpectrumAF®, PUP™ electrodes can be fully installed generally in less than 20 minutes per device. Hence, as an example, a typical cell tower or E-911 site can enjoy dramatically upgraded electronics protection (with up to 18 PUP™ units) in less than two days, start to finish, and without any interruption of service.
Importantly, GroundLinx® H-ELP™ systems are supplemental to existing grounding strategies and hence are fully code compliant with NEC 250.54. However, when custom-specified, GroundLinx® products can also be deployed for new construction projects.
The GroundLinx® H-ELP™ system is designed to be extremely flexible with respect to site
constraints and geology, as well as scalability.
...even after hundreds of documented direct lightning strikes or other electrical anomalies on their commercial power supply lines. Thanks to the effectiveness of GroundLinx® products and the GroundLinx® H-ELP™ system, many customers advise us that they have eliminated their equipment replacement budget and reallocated these reserves into more productive accounts.
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