Mobile Lightning Protection & Grounding

Lightning-Protection by Alltec Corporation
Tuesday May 15, 2007

Alltec Corporation’s Mobile Lightning Protection and Grounding (MLPG) Systems are designed and manufactured to be employed with metallic masts, towers, and other mobile equipment and temporary structures. Sensitive and expensive electronic sensors, communication antennas, radar, and other rapid deployment devices, require protection from direct lightning strikes, electrostatic, and electromagnetic pulse energy. Alltec Corporation’s MLPG Systems provide charge dissipation terminals and ground electrodes to meet this need. Custom configurations, accessories, and design assistance are available to meet any site description and specification. Call with your application requirements.

Features:

• Created expressly for simple, rapid, and reliable assembly and disassembly.
• MLPG System Charge Dissipation Terminal (CDT) Assemblies may be oriented and adjusted to suit a wide variety of mast mounted equipment, and are available for both offset (side), and straight (top), installation on mobile equipment deployment structures.
• Exclusive charge dissipation features utilizing the Point Discharge Principle for lightning strike mitigation: electrodes break down into corona before streamers can form, thereby lowering accumulated charges and postponing streamer generation. Models are available for both standard and high-risk applications.
• Multiple grounding configurations are available to suit specific cost/performance goals: a robust copper and stainless steel winged ground electrode (shown) for excellent low resistance/impedance earth ground connectivity; stainless steel and copper clad stainless steel electrodes, with steel handles for speedy installation/extraction; and, copper clad stainless steel rods for cost effective multipurpose applications. Custom designs, materials, and exothermically welded connections are available.
• Materials and wire selections to cover every need and application.
• Rugged, wheeled carrying case is optional accessory.
• The entire MLPG System typically requires less than 46” X 12” X 6” stowage space, and weighs less than 30 lbs, supplying portable convenience.
• Requires less than 15 minutes to assemble and install onto typical mobile mast.
• Use with PowerTrip® Transient Voltage Surge Suppression devices for a complete Alltec “Protection Pyramid™”, the Three-Step lightning protection, grounding, and power quality site solution.

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