Protect your farm from surge and lightningSurges and lightning strikes cost farmers tens of thousands of pounds every year. They not only damage household appliances used to run your everyday lives, such as computers, TV’s and kitchen appliances, but also disrupt and often destroy the highly sensitive and valuable electronic machinery needed to run your operational buildings.
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We're in NFU Farmer and Grower magazine this month.
Living in isolated farmhouses in rural areas we all know the destruction and damage that direct lightning strikes can have on our personal and valuable equipment.
Our own Colin Sanders tells us how we can stop destructive electrical surges at our door.
“We were suffering so frequently from the knock on affects of power surges at our farm that we started to believe they were an inevitable part of living in rural areas. After having Smartsurge’s Surge Protection Arrestor Unit installed, we now realise how misinformed we were!”
Farmer Ben James
“Recent lightning strikes in our area would normally cause our computers to crash and our digital watering system to be thrown into chaos. The lightning and surge protection system Colin and his team installed worked – nothing was affected by it and we carried on working as normal.”
John – Norfolk farmer
A: Put simply, an electrical surge is a temporary, very short (less than a second) increase in your electrical supply. Otherwise known as a ‘spike’ and invisible to the naked eye, surges can vary in size from a couple of hundred volts to millions. They are constant and happening in your farm right now.
A: A variety of actions that include: merely turning your dishwasher, washing machine or any equipment that is run by automated electronic systems such as electronic monitoring and automated watering, feeding and lighting systems on and off; your power coming back on after a power strike or the impact of a lightning strike that has taken place up to several miles away.
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