How To Prevent LED High Bay Light From Being Damaged By Lightning?

It is well known that lightning has always been a natural enemy of electrical equipment. Especially in the lightning season, the efficiency of the construction team will be largely reduced. How can we protect LED high bay lights against lightning? As the developping of technologies, there are various lightning protection technologies and methods to effectively prevent LED High Bay Light from being damaged by lightning as below. 

1. Set Lightning Protection Zone

   This is a direct and relatively early method to prevent lightning damage. At present, for LED industrial and mining lamps, in addition to the power supply equipment, some communication devices will be set up to control the switch and brightness of the street lamps. Both the equipment and the power supply need to be placed in the lightning protection zone, and the protection zone is directly shielded by the outer casing. Since the electromagnetic field here is much weaker, the destructive power for lightning is much smaller.

   
   

2. Lightning Protection Equipotential Bonding

   in order to completely eliminate the damage caused by lightning, the general electrical appliances must use the overvoltage protector for equipotential bonding, and the interface of each inner protective zone of the High Bay LED Lighting should also be connected with local equipotential bonding. That is to say, the local equipotential bonding of the LED high bay light should be connected to each other and then connected to the main equipotential.

   
   

   

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3. External Lightning Protection And Internal Lightning Protection

   Now the general led mining lamp is used outside the conductor material, which is equivalent to a lightning rod. The internal lightning protection system refers to the internal protection of the LED high-altitude lamp through grounding and voltage protection. The system prevents inductive lightning and other forms of overvoltage intrusion, resulting in power supply damage, which is not guaranteed by external lightning protection systems. The two are complementary and complement each other.

   
   

4. Equip A Surge Protection Device (SPD)

   Surge Protective Devices are designed to protect electric equipment against transient surge conditions. Large single surge events, such as lightning, can reach hundreds of thousands of volts and can cause immediate or intermittent equipment failure. ZGSM equips 10KV/20KV SPD for every outdoor LED lights, including LED Street Lights, LED Garden Lights, LED Parking Lot Lights, LED Highbay/Flood Lights, LED Stadium Lights and so on.

   
   

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People Also Ask

1. What is Surge Protection Device (SPD)?

   SPD in LED lighting area usually means Surge Proection Device. It's a device or appliance that protects electrical equipment against voltage spikes in alternating current (AC) circuits. A voltage spike is a brief transient occurrence that can reach over 1,000 volts and lasts 1 to 30 microseconds. Lightning can generate a spike in voltage of over 100,000 volts, which can burn through wiring insulation and cause fires, but even small spikes can harm a wide range of electrical items, including computers, battery chargers, modems, and televisions. The surge device will typically activate at a predetermined voltage, usually 3 to 4 times the mains voltage, and divert the current to earth. The surge may be absorbed by some gadgets and released as heat.

   
   

2. Can we apply LED High Bay Lights to the garage?

   Yes, our LED High Bay Light could be used for both indoor lighting and outdoor lighting. IP66 waterproof design makes it no need to worry about the rain. PC lenses of different beam angles could meet the lighting requirements of different lighting areas.

   
   

3. How do you replace metal halide with LED?
   

   Depending on how the existing lighting configuration is configured, there are a variety of approaches to retrofit lighting systems with LEDs. In many circumstances, replacing the existing fixture with a new LED fixture that produces a comparable lumen output is the simplest and most basic solution. 
   

   In other cases, reconfiguring a complete lighting system plan to effectively update to LED technology may be necessary. There are a few cases when an LED retrofit kit can be used to update an existing fixture, but this requires some electrical knowledge to execute successfully.

   If you don't know how to replace old Metal Halide lamps or HPS lamps, pls contact us for professional advice.