Surge Success Intel - Custom Surge Suppression Solutions (15Dec11)

Hello, I'm Tim Key with Surge Suppression Incorporated. Today I'd like to talk to you about custom surge protection solutions because not every surge related problem can be mitigated with a standard product right off the shelf.

In the spring of 2008 a long time customer, a major amusement park in central Florida opened a new water park. About 3 months after the park opened a severe storm moved across central Florida and right over the park. The lightning induced surges
associated with the storm caused serious damage to the water flow and dispatch controlsystems on three of the parks five slide groups.

The morning after the storm I visited the site and performed a walk-through with 3 of the parks plant engineering staff. I obtained the basic information for the devices that would be needed. I realized that most of the devices would require custom enclosures due to the environment and some custom panels would need to be built to hold multiple devices. For that part I recruited the services of our engineering department.

We were asked to add protection to every vulnerable point in the systems to offer the best protection possible. Using slide group C as the example, I'll recap the devices we used and their locations. First, I'll start on the ground level. For the water flow control system we built a custom surge panel. The panel was mounted close to the existing control panel and contains a 120V surge protective device for the incoming power and 24V, multi conductor devices for the 24V flow meter circuits leaving the panel. These devices were all DIN rail mounted.

We then added four 24V devices for the remote flow meters and four of the same devices for the magnetic heads. These devices were installed as close as possible to each meter or magnetic head and were installed in a custom weatherproof enclosure.

On the tower level for the dispatch system we added another custom panel. The panel contains a 120V device for the incoming power, two 24V devices for the 24V power going to the traffic lights and a 24V-multi conductor device for the 24V going out to the sensor sets. Again, all of these devices were DIN rail mounted.

We then added devices for protection of the remote traffic lights and additional 24V devices for the remote sensor sets.

We provided similar devices and custom surge panels for the other four slide groups as well.

In more than 3 years since the incident and since our custom surge protection system has been installed, I'm happy to report that there have been no lightning or surge related losses or down time to any of the slide groups flow or dispatch control systems.

If you have any surge protection needs whether they're basic or require custom solutions and you can't tolerate downtime or unhappy customers, please give us a call. At Surge Suppression Incorporated, surge protection is all we do and we do it very well.

For additional information, please visit Surge Suppression Incorporated's website at www.surgesuppression.com, contact your local SSI representative or call 1-888-987-8877 today!

Thank you.

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