TABLE OF CONTENTS In this chapter components and protective devices used for surge control and/or the realization of the EMC-oriented lightning protection zone concept will be introduced with particular regard to construction, mode of functioning and fields of application. These include:
Air terminations for the erection of air-termination systems; in particular, the protection of electrical installations on flat roofs against direct lightning strikes and thus assessing the lightning protection zone 0 B.
Materials and components serving for the erection of building and room shields for lightning protection zone 1 and higher.
Materials and components by means of which it is possible to realize the shielding of power and telecommunication lines connecting neighbouring buildings.
Shields for lines within lightning protection zone 1 and higher.
Optoelectronic bondings.
Components for equipotential bonding systems.
Protective devices to discharge lightning currents and to limit over-voltages. Power and telecommunication lines, for example, are protected at the interfaces of the lightning protection zones by lightning current arresters, installed at the interface of lightning protection zones 0 A and 1. Protective gear is also to be installed, for example, directly at the inputs of systems and devices, if they have their own (local) protection zones.
