With the advantage of easy operating, easy transporting and highly automated, mobile solar trailer usually deployed in remote open space. It is likely to be the lightning strikes target in thunderstorm when the telescopic mast extended. Here to give you some thunderstorm use suggestions, You can handle lightning problems yourself, or you can let us help install lightning rods.
Use suggestion:
1. The lightning rod will sometimes have the effect of triggering lightning. Usually, we recommend customers to lower the light pole during thunderstorms to avoid the risk of lightning strikes.
2. We will install the lightning rod on the top of the telescopic mast and the grounding screw on the bottom of trailer body. but our customer need to arrange ground wire by themselves on site.
3.The inverter inside our trailer tower is with surge protection function, which will protect the system from being destroyed by lightning.
Knowledge about lightning rod:
The principle of lightning rod is that when lightning occurs, the lightning rod can attract the discharge channel of lightning, so that the lightning current flows from the lightning rod into the earth's land, avoiding huge currents to buildings, equipment, trees causing damage or harming people or animals that happen to walk above the ground. The test proves that the best lightning rod is rod-shaped, the tip is slightly blunt.
But just installing a lightning rod is often not enough to protect solar trailers. Simply put, the lightning rod can only protect against direct lightning, but can not do anything about induction lightning, which is the "number one killer" of electronic and electrical equipment.
Induction lightning is caused by the rapidly changing strong magnetic field generated in the surrounding space by the huge impact lightning current during the lightning discharge. It can propagate along the circuit, but also through the space electromagnetic field propagation, encountering electronic and electrical equipment may produce a discharge spark, causing fire, explosion or cause electric shock accidents.
Protection against induction lightning, the need to use internal lightning protection measures, namely electromagnetic shielding, equipotential connection, installation of surge protectors, reasonable wiring, etc. When designing the product, reasonable routing has been taken into account. It only need a extra surge protection function then can protect the solar trailer well.
