Telecommunication Towers

Applications

Lightning and Over-voltage protection for telecommunication towers

Telecommunication towers such as cellular, microwave communication, television broadcast or radio repeaters are very high structures, placed in remote isolated locations. All equipment with electronics and control equipment are very sensitive to atmospheric discharges and electromagnetic inductions. Their maintenance and repair usually requires technicians to travel to remote desistance which results in long duration downtime that costs the operators large amount of revenue loss and loss in customer satisfaction.

Installation and maintenance of an appropriate lightning and overvoltage protection system can mitigate many of such failures.

Dhruva Technologies designs and installs all the necessary elements for the most efficient lightning protection for communication towers and the contained electronics.

Components of a telecommunication tower lightning protection systems:
  1. Earthing and bonding system
    1. External earthing system
    2. Internal earthing system
    3. equipotential bus bars
    4. equipotential isolation spark gap
  2. Lightning detector
  3. Overvoltage protection
    1. Over and under voltage cut off
    2. Type 1 protector at mains
    3. Type II protector at UPS
    4. Type III protector for DC power supply
    5. Type II protector for aviation light controller
    6. Telephone line protector for ADSL link
    7. Network protector for data link
  4. Coaxial protectors for RF lines and security cameras
  5. Lightning Air Terminal