What is the significance of redundancy of Surge Protectors for strategic or remote sites?
When a fuse fails in surge protectors that are either “all protection” or “no protection”, the risk of catastrophic damage greatly increases in the event of another strike. When a surge is large enough to activate a safety fuse in a surge protector, it is generally during a storm, not at the end. Scientists have clearly shown that a lightning event, known as a FLASH, consists of multiple STROKES of energy down the same channel. The individual surges are more than 10 ms apart and the global median is 3.2 strokes in a flash. This means there is a risk of a second surge down the same channel, to the same site, milliseconds later, that will damage the unprotected site, because the surge protection has failed. You cannot afford to take this risk at a strategic site. If it were a remote site it could takes days before a technician can get to a site to replace a failed surge protector. If the surge protector selected has redundancy the site will still have substantial protection when some por
