5 Steps to Protect a Home Against Overvoltage When Entering the Winter Season

During this period when we enter the winter season, in parallel with the increasing rainfall, there is an increase in the number of lightning strikes; additionally, it is important to protect our homes against sudden peaks caused by power outages resulting from electrical lines malfunctioning due to poor weather conditions.

In this article, we will explain to you in the easiest way how you should protect your home against Lightning and Sudden Overvoltage surges.

5 Steps to Protect Our Home in Stormy Weather

Explaining how end users can protect their homes against lightning and sudden overvoltage surges and informing them is a duty for us engineers. From people living in apartment flats to end users living in villas, everyone can lose their devices due to the effects of lightning.

We share with you 5 tips you need to know for protection against overvoltage

1. Use a Type 1+2 surge protection system in the main power entrance panel of the house; use Type 3 protections for sockets before the final point devices.

1. Before installing the surge protection system, have your grounding measurements and inspections carried out by an expert company. We must ensure that the grounding is properly done.
2. If you do not live in a detached house, make sure that there is a Type 1+2 surge protector in the main entrance panel of the apartment building.
3. If you live in a detached house, after using a Type 1+2 surge protector in the main entrance panel, do not forget to use Type 2+3 protections in the floor panels and Type 3 socket internal protections at the final points.

1. If there are different groundings in the facility, make sure they are bonded to equipotential. If there is an external lightning protection system, surge protectors must be used only after the equipotential bonding is completed.

*Bonus-If your external lightning protection system descends with an uninsulated bare conductor, the risk of system damage increases; ensure that this conductor is replaced with an insulated special lightning down conductor.

In order to ensure these steps, correct product selection and correct installation are also very important. In addition, it is very important to include the metal pipes in your home in the equipotential bonding mentioned above.

As a lightning protection center, we are pleased to provide you with the necessary support for protecting your villa and apartment against lightning. We can support you in inspection, control, product selection, and application.

As Yılkomer, we are proud to recommend to you the most advanced technological products in Raycap ag surge protection systems.

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