Protect Network and Wireless Devices from Lighting and Thundering

Do you lose many devices and appliances every year due to thundering and unsecured earthing wiring? just use the best method to Protect Network and Wireless Devices from Lighting and Thundering and keep your network and house equipment always running in any season.

How to Protect Network and Wireless Router from Lighting and Thundering

Thundering and lighting is an international problem of electronic devices. The rainy season is the biggest enemy time for electronic and network device burn due to thundering and lightning. I have created this post especially for internet service providers (ISP) who lose many wireless and indoor network devices due to lighting and thundering.  It Is not possible to stop thundering and lighting on the device but we have many solutions to prevent thundering and lighting issues.

Mostly corporate level telecom industry does the protection from lighting and thundering during installation but small and SME size ISP ignore it. Small-size ISPs thought to invest in earthing and lightning protection don’t have any requirements and it doesn’t give income. But it is true using proper earthing and lighting protection saves your business during the thundering and rainy season and prevents losing your customer due to your network devices being burnt.

The impact of lighting and thundering is not only limited to the official product it also affects home alliances such as TV, fridges, AC, and other electronic Products. So for home, electronic appliances also require to proper earthling to prevent lightning damage. Always use a whole-house surge protector and earthling provision during the construction of the house.

Requirement Type of earthing and lightning protection for Electronic appliances

There are many electronic products and appliances used in homes and offices. So how to protect the different products with thundering effect damage and burning issue?

1: Indoor Network devices

2: Outdoor Network Devices

3: Home Appliance Surge Protection

 

1: Indoor Network devices Effect of Lightening and thundering

An indoor network device includes the Switch, Router, Server, PC, Printer, Xerox machine, and any other equipment used inside the house. If you are the network admin or internet service provider then you must beware of product burning losses during rainy season due to heavy lighting. Most of people think we invest in Earth Wire because it doesn’t give us any return income. So during heavy lighting, we lose the complete network device due to passing light from outside and flow on the wire to the device.  There are many ways to save your network equipment from lighting and thundering and save you in all weather without worry about any type of lighting.

How to use Network device Earthing and lightning protection

There are many ways to protect network devices from lighting. I have created some points that can help you to protect your entire indoor network device during lighting and thundering issues.

1:  Use the EHT and Lighting Protected Device only:

Always use the Network device having an inbuilt EHT protection circuit. If you already have many network devices that don’t have any EHT (Extra high tension) then you can use Ethernet Surge Protector (ETH-SP)  before directly connecting to the device wire coming from outside. Whenever any thundering and lightning comes into the device it will go through EHT protection and will not damage and burn the hardware.

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2: Always use Earthing in office electric line.

3: use the separate earthing for your Server room network devices and Servers. Never mix the home Earthing and Network earthing in the same wire.

4: use power system protection from lightning with a battery backup surge protector to ensure your power backup system is not affected by any surge.

2: Lightning surge effect on Outdoor Wireless devices.

Most damaged and burnt products are due to thundering and lightning drops on your mounting tower. If you are a small and medium-sized Internet provider and face every year lighting issue then this post can help you to out from the thundering issue.

But you can prevent thundering and lighting problems on your device with basic steps and can protect your all outdoor devices. I have given some basic requirements.

Protect Outdoor Wireless and Wired Equipment from Surge.

There are many surge protection devices available that save your equipment during the rainy season and heavy lighting and thunder.

 

1: Always use the Earthing for the Tower top to ensure lighting does not go through the tower to your equipment.

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2: Always use the best surge protector for the device to protect an overvoltage protection circuit to ensure any outlighting not damage your outdoor devices.

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3: Do not mount the device very close to each other. Give at least 1-2 meter distance before mounting the second device. Installing a close device may pass the lightning and can damage your device during lightning.

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3: Home Appliance Surge Protection

In every house, there are many important and regular electronic appliance used which is 24/7 connected to electricity. So it is big damage in case a surge comes to home appliances. To protect home devices first step is always to do the whole house’s earth and lighting protection wiring. As the in-home electric equipment is connected use overvoltage protection also to ensure the regularly connected device cannot be damaged due to surge passing through it. Try to use multiple earthing to protect overvoltage protection devices on the entire house and it goes through the ground with earthing.

1: Use earthling for all electrical lines in the house.

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2: unplug the electronic device during thundering and lighting.

Conclusion:

End of the day network and work always should be run to provide positive service and avoid losing clients day by day. so don’t depend on the season just use the best security devices and prevent it from affecting any season. so electronic devices are always affected by lighting and thundering make sure you have a Protect Network and Wireless Devices from Lighting and Thundering and save lots of money lost due to bad weather.

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