Safety Protection Grid Solution Blog

Over a 10-year period the electric companies delivers power to customers across the USA an average of 99.5% of the time. However, not all outages require to be reported.

Low voltage communication cables can inflict damage on electrical equipment within a facility. The National Electrical Code requires the bonding of these low voltage cables.

If you believe that your facility or home is protected from lightning strikes, power surges and other power disturbances you are sadly mistaken.

SPGS uses the National Electrical Code (NEC), NFPA 780, IEEE Standard 142IEEE , 81-2012 as well as other standards to design a lifetime earth ground system.

Facility Managers get what they pay for when it comes to business continuity and service reliability

Naturally, actual downtime cost and downtime history will be different for every company.

Everyone knows someone who knows something about grounding and by the way my guy is cheap. However, cheap bargains usually never find the root cause of failure.

Equipment within facilities causes 80% of the equipment failures, system failures and downtime that occur at your facility. 20% is caused by your utility company.

An EMC issue will always have at least one (1) source (radiation, coupling or conduction) and at least one (1) victim (equipment).

A ground rod or a ground field’s real purpose in life is to have a designed electrical path to dissipate a static discharge voltage (such as Lightning) to earth.

EMI, RFI, EMC Why do we Still Have These Problems?

This explains the difference between Bonding, Earthing, and Grounding